Mad About Malkoppan
Caravan & Outdoor Life|May 2017

Glad to escape the heat in Bot River, I aimed my old Honda Africa Twin motorcycle north by west and made for the West Coast.

Nick Yell
Mad About Malkoppan

During the journey, the heat sat as tightly clamped on the undulating landscape as the lid of a pressure cooker, and I was very relieved to feel the air freshen as I neared the coast outside Elands Bay.

My plan was to catch my breath and hole up for a couple of days in the revitalised old-style country hostelry, the Elands Bay Hotel, before seeking out a campsite a little further up the coast.

After trawling the net in-between long strolls on the beach and bouts of reading-induced head-lolling in my armchair, I settled on Malkoppan. Sure, there were a number of other good options both in Elands Bay and nearby Lamberts Bay, most with better sea- facing locations; but what swung my decision towards Malkoppan was the fact that I could walk to the quintessential open-air seafood restaurant I’d been wanting to eat at for years: the world-renowned Muisbosskerm.

The illicit ride into Lamberts Bay, along the now ‘closed to the public’, coast-hugging toll road from Elands Bay, was as good as I'd remembered it from five years back. En route, I was once again glad to have my jaw drop as a 220 coach, eight locomotive iron ore train from Sishen rumbled its three and a half kilometre length past me.

But probably the most thrilling experience of all was stopping the bike alongside a dune next to the dirt track and making my way to a deserted bay over the rise, flopping into the creamy white sands and meditating to the surging pulse of the sea.

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