Exploring the Cape and you don’t like packing and unpacking every day to see another destination? Make this property your base from where you can explore all the famous places like Hermanus, Franschhoek, Stellenbosch, Cape Town, Muizenberg and Kalk Bay, from one place, all in a one hour drive.
Explore Gordon’s Bay Surroundings
It is not about what to do but how much time do you have? We claim that Gordon’s Bay is in the Heart of the Cape. Central in the Cape, only an hour away, from Hermanus, Franschhoek, Stellenbosch and Cape Town, the quaint seaside village of Gordons Bay is close to Cape Town tourist attractions and is the answer to your holiday destination dreams!
Gordon’s Bay is sunny! South Africa is on the Southern Hemisphere. Gordon’s Bay is north-facing which means sun all day long. Europeans could get confused since they are used to south-facing to get sun but remember, coming from Europe, you crossed the Equator!
Gordon’s Bay, your closest stay to Cape Town, Stellenbosch, Hermanus and Cape Town Airport and the ideal destination in the Cape! This property due to its location and with well appointed office space creates the ideal opportunity to work from home. The fibre installation insures highspeed internet connection.
The Mansion:
This modern three-level executive home offers everything that the discerning buyer can wish for. Situated on the slopes of the mountain, facing northwest over False Bay, it offers spectacular views and an amazing lifestyle.
With the open-plan configuration, this property is an entertainer’s dream with a well-appointed gourmet kitchen leading onto an open barbeque deck overlooking the bay and views of the surrounding mountains.
The fully-fitted study on the upper level. as well as an office downstairs from which you can run your business or add an additional bedroom to the existing flatlet.
Opportunity to generate an income with a private self-contained flatlet on the lower level as well as another one-bedroom unit.
The property offers state of the art security features and ensures total privacy
Main House:
4 Bedrooms
4.5 Bathrooms
Gourmet Kitchen
Internal gas barbeque in the main kitchen
Walk-in pantry
Executive office
Separate scullery and laundry
Dining room
4 Living Areas
Flatlet:
Self-contained flatlet with lounge, kitchen, bedroom and bathroom
Office space or additional bedroom for flatlet .
Outside:
3 Garages with automated doors
Storeroom and Workshop
3 Secure Parking Spaces
Heated Pool & Elevated Splash Pool
Full perimeter wall
Web-enabled interior and exterior alarm system, security beams and CCTV cameras
Underfloor heating
Air-conditioning
Outdoor wood barbeque
Koi Pond
Extras:
Staff quarters with en-suite bathroom or could be rented out
More about Gordon’s Bay:
You can explore Gordon’s Bay and surroundings in different ways. We have a list of specific points of interest and tourist destinations.
There are four routes starting from or finishing in Gordon’s Bay.
- The famous Whale route to Hermanus over Clarence Drive with spectacular views;
- 4 Passes route through the Wine and Fruit lands that surrounds us;
- The Wine route from Sir Lowry’s Pass, Somerset to Stellenbosch and Franschhoek;
- Bay route taking you along False Bay to quaint places like Muizenberg, Kalk-Bay up to Simons Town and Cape Point.
False Bay has warmer water compared with Atlantic Beaches in Cape Town!
Sea temperature in summer often reaches 22 °C (72 °F) in False Bay due to the South Easter wind blowing the warm Agulhas into False Bay. Whereas on the Atlantic beaches (in the City of Cape Town) the same wind pulls the warm surface water away from the coast, and this is replaced by very cold water from great depths, usually 6 – 14 °C (45 – 57 °F).
Whale and Dolphin Watching from ashore
Just outside Gordon’s Bay you will find our Whale Lookout Points. The Whale Walk ending at the Whale Outlook Point on Suikerbossie Road or go up to the Steenbras Lookout Point. Both have parking facilities, benches to watch over the ocean of False Bay and be lucky to spot the Dolphins and Whales. The whale season is between June and December every year.
Take a Hike
If you come for a hike, you came to the right area. We have our own Danie Miller hike, just up Aurora Road or Suikerbossie Road. The Danie Miller Hiking Trail will surprise you with the most spectacular views of Gordon’s Bay, False Bay, Helderberg Area and our harbour. It has a wide variety of indigenous plants, small streams and is a contour walk for young and old and follows the contour above the top houses along the length of Gordon’s Bay just below the anchor. The trial is about 2.9km long and takes about 2 hours to walk.
Stunning Views
Not in for a hike but just want to see where everyone talks about? Steenbras Lookout Point or the Sir Lowrys Pass Lookout at the N2 will give you that WOW moment for that beautiful picture capturing everything we are blessed with in the Cape.
Swim in a natural pool under a waterfall
Not the ordinary hike. Crystal Pools starts around the corner at the start of Clarence Drive. An intermediate hike of about 45 minutes brings you the first natural pool with a waterfall. Permits (R70) are required to enter the trails which are closed from May to the end of October due to winter flooding.
Make your hole in one
South Africa is recognised internationally as a “Favoured Golf Destination”. Gordon’s Bay, with two 18 hole Championship Courses within a fifteen minute drive (no pun intended!), five more within 30 minutes, and a further seventeen more within one hour, can confidently lay claim to being the perfect base from which to explore and experience, the wide variety of terrain and settings, “off-course” experiences, friendly atmosphere and value for money that golf in the Western Cape provides. We have listed the nearest 7 for you below!
Fish your own meal
Gordon’s Bay has two harbours and angling is a local sport so why don’t you join them. There are different bait shops in Gordon’s Bay and many local spots to fish from.
Hire a bicycle
Hire a bicycle and experience the splendour of the Western Cape in a most unique way. Rentabicycle based in Gordon’s Bay not only rents out bikes but also offers four different routes in the area. Have different and eye opening experience of South Africa’s culture and natural beauty by bicycle. Cycle with view!
Magnificent Sunsets
Gordon’s Bay is famous for the spectacular sunsets! Watch as the sun slips behind the indigo-coloured Table Mountain Range across the Bay and the sky lights up. Tones of peach, apricot, gold maroon and violet swirl in amazing cloud patterns and shine on the Helderberg Mountains, which reflect pink hues onto the patchwork of vineyards in the Helderberg wine region.
If there is one thing that Gordon’s Bay is known for and also the number one local sport: Sunset photo’s! Hundreds have been taken and all unique and beautiful. Every day a new painting. From our Outlook Points, the harbour, the beach, our restaurants at Beach Road, your apartment or room, there is hardly no place where you can watch the star at the center of our Solar System.
Celebrate Wine-O-Clock
With about 20 vineyards within a 30 minute drive from Gordon’s Bay, There is no excuse to miss Wine-O-Clock. The idea of rewarding yourself after a day’s hard graft with a goldfish bowl could become an experience visiting one these of estate’s that service wine-tasting or even better, wine-pairing. The first ones just outside Gordon’s Bay are Idiom in Sir Lowry’s Pass, Onderkloof and Waterkloof in the direction of Somerset and Lourensford and Vergelegen in Somerset. The list continues in the direction of Stellenbosch.
Zip a Line
Lonely Planet listed Cape Canopy Tour, located in the Elgin Valley near Grabouw and scaling the rugged Hottentots Holland mountains in the Cape Nature reserve of the same name, as second on the list of the world’s hottest new tourism experiences for 2015. Cape Canopy Tour was the only African attraction to make the list! It has been described by Lonely Planet as “vertigo-tinged fun” and “an exciting aerial perspective”.
Chill at the weekend market(s)
Good food, delicious drinks, lively tunes and brilliant company. ROOT44 knows South Africans enjoy nothing more. The perfect all-weather setting where you, friends and family can come together rain or shine. A market with a difference: housed in sturdy, super cosy marquees (which means rain is never an issue), and surrounded by gorgeous vineyards and trees, we offer funky live entertainment, craft and homeware stalls perfect for leisurely browsing, and an awesome selection of edible and drinkable treats.
