Witsand

Witsand

Heading on Eastwards, and before you get to Heidelburg, take a detour towards the coast, and you come to the peaceful, coastal town of Witsand.

This is the spot where one of the greatest concentrations of Southern Right Whales comes come here to calve every year. On a good day, between June and late November, is it not unusual to spot up to 50 of them. The Southern Right Whale migrates between Antarctic summer feeding grounds and the mating and calving grounds off the coasts of Africa, Australia and South America.

Witsand is also where the Breede River flows into the Indian Ocean, creating a river estuary of note that provides safe swimming, windsurfing, rock and surf angling, deep sea fishing, snorkelling, spear fishing and 4 km of long, unspoilt beach with white bleached sand – hence the village’s name.

Witsand makes a wonderful stop on the Garden Route, within easy reach of Malgas’s Pont, De Hoop Nature Reserve, Swellendam, Heidelberg, the Bontebok Park, Robertson Wine Route and Montagu.