Birdwatcher's beach walk paradise! Kommetjie. Cape Town.

Birdwatcher's Beach Paradise!			Kommetjie.
Birdwatcher's Beach Paradise!			Cape Town.


		Bird Watchers Tour		Beach Tour
	Just as it does not require a botanist to realize the wonders of fynbos, one does not need to be a birdwatcher to enjoy the abundance of fascinating bird life on your doorstep while staying at the Beach House and enjoying scenic local beach walks.
Hartlaub's Gull (Larus hartlaubii) in motionless flight, turning on the wind.







A variety of sea birds taking a break from the harshness of the Cape Coast in a quiet pool at Wildevoelvlei at the end of Noordhoek Beach. March 2001. There are 30 species of birds resident in Wildevoelvlei in winter including wet-land dwelling birds such as purple gallinules, ducks, herons and flamingoes.
For bird watching enthusiast Sunset Beach House and the surrounding area is an absolute paradise. The marshland that together with the mountains, have kept Kommetjie isolated and secluded, stretches from behind Noordhoek Beach inland. It blends imperceptible with the dune and the beach. Here in summer the water may disappear while in winter it is constant supporting its own flock of flamingos. Whenever there is water the concentration of many of the birds become localized. The immediate vicinity around the Beach House provide such a bio-diverse area, that the number of bird species is as astonishing as the number of plant species. Click on the pictures to visit the Beach House bird pages. Between Long Beach, the Kom, Slangkop, Wildevoelvlei and Noordhoek Beach the Winter Months with its North-Western storms brings some of the best land based viewing of seabirds in the world to within easy walking distance to the Beach House. A variety of terns, that fly thousands of kilometers can reliable be seen at the Kom. Albatrosses, petrels and Cape gannets can be seen from the land. Kommetjie is the only place on the mainland were four types of cormorants can be seen.

	African Black Oystercatchers on the flat sand at Wildevoelvlei, no longer breeding they still visit their former home, now partly under water. March 2001.


		Bird Watching

There is a pair of Crowned Plovers (above right) with their one chick that feed in the mornings in front of the Beach House on the dune, they have become fairly tolerant of human activity. These remarkable characters perform a "rain dance" to lure worms out!


		Beach

	Where to go?
	Where to go?

		Pepper Steak at the Beach Hotel Kitchen.
Contact: info@sunsetbeach.co.za Tel: +27 21 783 4283 Fax: + 27 21 783 4286	Janthina for pictorial sitemap
	Janthina for pictorial sitemap		Red Protea for Fynbos.
		Siffie for Beach Hotel Rates
		Siffie for Beach Hotel Rates

Birdwatcher's Beach Paradise!