-->
Photo Competition

SOUTH AFRICA | KWAZULU-NATAL | SOUTH COAST
Southern Explorer Logo

Where to Stay
Where to Eat
What to Do
Where to Shop

SOUTH AFRICA | KWAZULU-NATAL | SOUTH COAST

BEACHES

Telephone: 039 316 8221
Cell: 083 446 2348
Fax: 086 647 2980
Email: info@southernexplorer.co.za

The South Coast has some great beaches offering both point and beach breaks. This means that the waves break either on a rocky outcrop (point break) or they break onto sandbanks out to sea (beach breaks).

Sand banks are both fun and dangerous at the same time. Avoid swimming far out to stand on the sandbank and play in the waves. There are dangerous currents on the edge of the sand banks and they are prone to collapsing causing your safe environment to change without any notice!

If you find yourself in one of these rip currents please do not try to fight it but rather allow it to take you out to sea, from there you can determine your best route back to shore. If it is a protected beach, signal the lifeguards by waving your hands over your head and then try to relax as one of the many competent lifeguards on our coast are on their way to save you.

Please enjoy your stay on the coast and please remember that prevention is better than cure: swim only at protected beaches during the times that lifeguards are on duty!

  Banana Beach - Tour 2
Lifeguard on duty
 

Tourism South Coast

South Coast Tourism

Tourism South Coast and the Southern Explorer are actively and continuously working to improve the quality of Tourism Product and the Tourist Experience on the KwaZulu-Natal South Coast. Please contact either of these associations with any feedback - positive or negative - we are working for you! Please help us by sharing your experiences.

The Southern Explorer: info@southernexplorer.co.za

Toursim South Coast: info@tourismsouthcoast.co.za

BLue Flag Beaches

THERE ARE 4 ACCREDITED AND 4 PILOT BLUE FLAG BEACHES ON THE SOUTH COAST.

THE BLUE FLAG IS AN EXCLUSIVE ECO-LABEL WITH STRICT CRITERIA DEALING WITH WATER QUALITY, ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION AND INFORMATION, ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT AND SAFETY.

Webmaster
Serena Sampson

© SOUTHERN EXPLORER ASSOCIATION 2009
COPYRIGHT of all material is expressly reserved and no part of this website may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, or stored in any retrieval system, without the written permission of the Southern Explorer Association. The Southern Explorer is a registered non-profit Community Tourism Organisation.