Say yes to Yzer
Almost every small coastal town has experienced a boom in the past two decades. As a child, we always went to Still Bay for our December holidays and I watched it mushroom over the years, bringing traffic jams and shopping centres to the seaside.
Yzerfontein has also grown up: The old part of town clusters around the main beach, while the new, sprawling suburbs lie further away in a narrow strip along the coast. Each beach house here has a sea view and some are so new the paint is still wet.
Yet despite the new Spar complex and those beach houses – and the crowds of people who flock here – Yzerfontein still feels like a West Coast village.
The people are down-to-earth and hospitable. Order a coffee once and the
