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September 2009 Vol6 No9
A seal’s-eye panorama from
Lion’s Head to Karbonkelberg
rocks.
Not only does the hike to Oude Schip
reveal the hugely-impressive rocky
cliffs of Karbonkelberg, it also offers
possibly the most dramatic seal’s-eye
view anywhere on the Peninsula!
It’s a short hike along the coast from
the Llandudno Beach car-park or along,
what is colloquially referred to as
Rocket Road (but is actually called
Mitchell’s Road according to Peter
Slingsby’s Hout Bay map).
This is a perfect hike for introducing
younger children to the ‘great outdoors’.
The coastal route is more challenging
and about 500m longer, but finding
parking can be a problem, especially in
summer. Rocket Road (misnamed locally
because it leads to the ruined
Rocket House built in 1913) is much
the easier of the two and provides
super views. Although every time we
walk here it does look like Sandy Bay
beach is getting smaller and smaller
and maybe one day people will ask in
surprise, “Why did they call this
Sandy Bay when it should have been
called Rocky Bay?”
Many people seem to start at
Llandudno and return on the road
(having left a car at the Sandy Bay
Nek car-park).
At the end of the road, Rocket
House is a rather unspectacular
square building, although it does
raise the question of how they fitted
the solid concrete roof, or
