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Vlees Bay

Vlees Bay

A coastal resort on the Garden Route in the Western Cape, Vlees Bay is popular with fishing enthusiasts and shell collectors alike. Along the beach there are piles of shells, reportedly left by inhabitants hundreds of years ago. The property for sale in Vlees Bay is mainly suited to holiday and retirement homes and apartments, with a variety of vacant land for sale in the outlying areas. Vlees Baai offers the unique charm and isolated beauty that only a small coastal town could provide.

A Dutch commander named Vlees Bay in 1601. The word ‘vlees’ means ‘meat’ in Dutch and stems from the trade that used to take place there between the Khoi and the Dutch sailors. Places of interest nearby include Vis Bay, where the Dutch sailors used to go fishing and Fransmanshoek, a rock that juts out of the sea and is where a French ship was wrecked in 1763. Legend has it that the beach is haunted