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Kalk
Bay

We drove
on this
beach and
stopped a
few minutes
We were at
once surrounded
by little black
children who
wished to sell us
strings of shells

We drove through this
avenue called Natures
Cathedral. It is said
that the Dutch destroyed
all the trees, using the
wood for fuel in the early
days of their occupancy.
As there was no other fuel,
this was probably necessary.
However, they made good
the loss by planting whole
forests of pine, oak and
other varieties. It was done by
slave labor, which the resident
say made the planting of
so many trees possible. The
visitor gets the impression that
the pine is native, so frequent scattered and natural does it
appear, but none are indigenous.