Kassiesbaai 1

Located next to the thriving holiday town of Arniston, the Grade 1 heritage site of Kassiesbaai is credited as being the last remaining historical fishing village on the Overberg coast, and immortalised in countless photographs and paintings of whitewashed thatched cottages. The beautifully renovated Kassiesbaai was officially declared a National Heritage Site in 1986.

The name is derived from the wooden crates or paraffin kassies (boxes) that washed up on shore from shipwrecks. These were often used by early fishermen as building material for their homes. Today the local Fishermen’s Union owns the title deed to all the land.