Betty's Bay

Betty's Bay
Betty's Bay
Coordinates	34 ° 21 ′  S , 18 ° 56 ′  E Coordinates: 34 ° 21 ′  S , 18 ° 56 ′  E
Basic data
Country	South Africa
province	Western cape
District	Overberg
local community	Overstrand
height	0 m
Residents	1380 (2011)
founding	1930
Coast at Betty's Bay

Betty's Bay ( Afrikaans : Bettysbaai ) is a small town with 1,380 inhabitants (as of 2011) in the municipality of Overstrand , District Overberg , Western Cape Province in South Africa . The city is located between Kleinmond and Pringle Bay , 42 kilometers southeast of Gordon's Bay at a height of 0 meters on the coast on the R44 ( Clarence Drive ).

The elongated place, an approximately eight kilometers long street village, was developed around 1930 by Harold Nixon Porter. The place was named after Betty Youlein, the daughter of Porter's boss.

African penguins at Stony Point in Betty's Bay

history

Between 1912 and 1930, a whaling station was located here, from which the present-day town slowly developed.

Attractions

• Harold Porter National Botanical Gardens
• Kogelberg Nature Reserve , South Africa's first biosphere reserve
• Penguin colony at Stony Point
• historic whaling station at Stony Point

Web links

• Travel report on Ingrid's world

Individual evidence

1. ↑ 2011 census. Retrieved on July 23, 2018 . 
2. ↑ Kogelsberg Nature Reserve. Retrieved July 23, 2018 . 
3. ↑ Report on Stony Point. Retrieved July 23, 2018 .