PRINGLE BAY
Approximately 85 km from Cape Town and less than an hour from the airport, here is a unique and charming small coastal village situated in a World Biosphere Reserve. Pringle Bay is surrounded by mountains on three sides and overlooks the ocean with Cape Point in the distance. It abounds with wildlife and beautiful flora and is part of the Sixth Floral Kingdom of the planet. There is an amazing variety of coastal and mountain hiking trails in Pringle Bay and secluded beaches.
*Bonus – Low Crime Area
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13 RESTAURANTS: The Cork Eatery & Wine Bar, Ma Cuisine, Hanging Rock Kitchen, The Pringle, The Bay, The Book Club, Menucha, Burger Bar, Little Amsterdam, Lemon & Lime, Fynbos Enterprises, Hake Away, Chao’s and Kelvin Roof Top Bar/Restaurant and the HANGKLIP HOTEL for Food and Live Entertainment.
THE SILVER BEACHES are pristine and spotless and the air is clean and unpolluted. There is a small lagoon with clear and warm water where the Buffels River enters the sea.
Lifeguards are on duty during the holiday season.
No buses are allowed and the beach is safe and not overcrowded over Christmas.
Pringle Bay is one of the few bays in South Africa that face north, and the sunsets are spectacular (See the painting below).
PRINGLE NEWS:
1) FIBER – the whole village connected 2) Pringle Bay has a PILATUS Studio and now also a GYM 3) THE PRINGLE and BURGER BAR restaurants closed for winter break.
RESIDENTS: Here you will find an interesting mix of young and old, South African and overseas residents. Now considered a Zoom Town there is an ever-growing number of permanent young residents. Eco school plus surfing school and other extracurricular activities are available for your kids.
MUNICIPALITY: N24 Index lists Overstrand as the best in the country, i.e. Top Score! Also it again received a consecutive clean audit status.
PRINGLE HOUSE ECO-SCHOOL received the Best Practice Award, OVERSTRAND EDU-CENTRE– a top facility. There is also a bus service to CURRO and other outlying schools.
2 MEDICAL DOCTOR’S ROOMS, CHIROPRACTOR, 24/7 EMERGENCY TEAM, PHARMACY, PHYSIO, PSYCHOLODIST (Kleinmond Vet providing house visits and Dentists in Kleinmond)
PRINGLE HUB: for a free cup of coffee to socialize with other residents and bingo, chess, creative work, table tennis, music, fitness sessions, self-defense and kiddies programs. Make new friends!
SECURITY: The only access road is monitored by CCTV plus LPR (license plate recognition), we have two jacked-up security companies for the small community and active law enforcement. Our village has over the years extremely low crime statistics as no industry, extensions, townships, or informal settlements are allowed in this area!
CHURCHES: Pringle Bay United Church and Lewende Woord Kerk
SAFETY: Pringle Bay has its own fire station, a jacked-up emergency team, lifeguards in season and baboon monitors.
OUTLYING AREAS 5 minutes boat-launching facility, 10 min. to the penguin colony & Harold Porter Botanical Gardens, 30 min. to a variety of golf courses & horse riding, 40 min. to a variety of wine estates or the “Whale Capital” Hermanus.
FACILITIES: The Art Route, guesthouses and self-catering establishments, restaurants & pubs, shops, 07:00 to 22:00 supermarket, town hall hosting functions, a liquor store, bakery, laundry, gift shops, nursery, pottery studio, hairdressers, bicycle rentals, pharmacy, hardware store, etc.
ACTIVITIES A variety of activities for all age groups. The most obvious, are the sea-based activities and hiking groups through the nature reserves and up Hangklip mountain and to the Lighthouse. The weekly Park Run at the Harold Porter Reserve. Water aerobics, meditation, dance sport, sand boarding, Pilates, yoga, massage and beauty treatment, painting, and pottery classes. Come to the town hall, or join any of the social groups …. or visit the Pringle Bay Alpacas with your children.
HISTORY Archaeological evidence of the Khoi Khoi, the original inhabitants, can still be found, and two centuries ago runaway slaves sheltered in our mountain caves the famous “Drostersgat” – Deserters Cave in our area. In the old days the “False Cape/ Bay” regularly prompted sailing yachts from the East to turn north far too early, having mistaken Cape Hangklip for Cape Point. Pringle Bay is named after the Royal Navy Commander-in-Chief of the Simons Town Naval Base in the late eighteen’s century, Sir Thomas Pringle, who wanted to develop Pringle Bay as a port so that farm produce could be shipped across the bay. During World War 2 Hangklip Hotel was the barracks of the personnel manning the radar station high on the slopes of Hangklip Mountain, watching out for German U-boats, and. Glen Craig served as a prison for Italian prisoners-of-war, who with only spades and picks built the majestic Clarence Drive.
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