Harbour to Harbour series - final of 7 Traditional Geocache

Hermanus has two harbours, neither of them with a proper name. They are just “The Old Harbour” near the town centre and “The New Harbour” some kilometres to the west. The Old Harbour is very much better known than the New Harbour, as it has a Museum devoted to its maintenance and promotion, while the New Harbour is still officially a working ‘small fishing harbour’, to use the official description.

However, things may be changing for the New Harbour. Government funding is said to be in the pipeline to change several small harbours in which fishing is no longer taking place, into recreational and tourist attraction sites. This has been done with great success in several countries and, on the face of it, should be successful in Hermanus. One thing that is clear from a study of small harbour improvement abroad is that tourists and recreational users are appreciative of a history of the harbour in its working days. The Hermanus History Society is working on creating a history of our New Harbour.  hermanus-new-harbour

You are now at the New Harbour. Three abalone farms are behind you and in front of you the harbour itself, hosting Whale watching boats, fishing boats and other vessels.