The photo that inspired this Striated Sky was taken from inside one of the boulders on the Logies Bay promontory, north of Llandudno Beach, looking towards the Mountain. Llandudno is a small residential suburb off Victoria Road just before Hout Bay. It is named after Llandudno on the Welsh coast. The area was known as Kleinkommetjie Bay until 1903 when Mrs Wege, wife of one of the directors of the Camps Bay Extension Estates, returned from a holiday to the UK and was struck by the similarity between Llandudno in Wales and Kleinkommetjie Bay.
Llandudno in Wales has rocky promontories on either side of their bay, known as Orms. These are reminiscent of the promontories at Logies Bay on the northern end and Sunset Rocks to the south, and so it was decided to christen the new township Llandudno. The Logies Bay promontory, is made up of Cape Granite that was forced up between the surrounding sedimentary Shale by volcanic action. The rocks are weathered, some into caves, like the one from which the photo was taken. Logies Bay also has an approx. 40-metre wide dolerite dyke alongside the granite (dark brown rock in the picture), Dykes are formed by molten lava that was squeezed between fissures in the granite before cooling. This dyke is the widest in the peninsula.* For all the Geologists out there check out this Thesis by Nils Bakeberg, it is a little over my head 🙂
Llandudno beach is absolutely stunning and in 2012 was used “by mistake” to represent the French North coast in London billboard adverts. The French tourism ads were trying to get people to go on holiday to France during the Olympics. A London based fashion photographer, Bradford Bird, picked up that the photo was Llandudno given that he had grown up there. According to a Telegraph article the ad agency had made a sorting error, apologised and changed the picture to one of France. I am sure that they just adored the beauty of the South African coast and had to use the picture ;-).
If you would like to own a piece of this beautiful seaside suburb you will need between R8.5 – R50 Million. If you earn a currency other than Rand now if the time to buy as you could scoop up a stunning 4 bedroom on the rocks for US$2.8M (£1.86M) or if you are on a budget and don’t mind a walk to the beach you can buy a stunning 5 bedroom family Villa for US$812k (£533k). You will not regret having your own spot on a piece of the most beautiful coastline in the world, what are you waiting for….
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