The gradual advancement of these dunes has now reached close to 100m of stabilised dune fields from boundary lines and has crept to a point beyond the high tide mark. This has made the Seal Point beach in Cape St Francis unsafe and has created a bank of sand 7m high – the front edge of the stabilised dune. A large section of the beach has been absorbed by this unofficial beach stabilisation, and there is now much less beach for locals and visitors at high tide.

The Seal Point beach is 2.5km in length, but the southern corner is the popular spot. The corner has two car parks, toilets, and lifeguards during the summer. There are surfers, surf schools, and good waves there as well. It used to be that, as the corner fills up with people. So the expansion would just see more beachgoers spread further north, from the corner.

For the full article on the Daily Maverick, go here

A Cape St Francis resident holds a placard protesting for the removal of thatch from the beach.

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Republished from The Daily Maverick, October 2020

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