Estate Living September 2016 Digital Issue | Page 37

Breedezicht Witsand

breedezicht
retirement and lifestyle estate

Underneath Witsand is a body of
underground water which leaches
the red iron oxide from the sand,
making the beach a brilliant white.
Along this magnificent coastline,
the “brulsand” (roaring sand) can
sometimes be heard rumbling as
the dunes are disturbed by the
wind.
One of the few places on the
Western Cape’s shoreline that
remain unspoilt, Witsand is a
coastal village situated at the
mouth of the Breede River on St
Sebastian Bay. Each year great
numbers of migrating southern
right whales come here to
calve, so it stands to reason that
Witsand’s pristine four-kilometre
stretch of white-sand beach is
one of the most enviable land-

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down by the sea

Witsand Beach

New England style house

Heritage style house