Plettenberg Bay Beaches – Keurbooms Lagoon (Poortjies)
The Keurbooms Lagoon Beach (Poortjies) fronts the lagoon mouth – and varies in size from a strip of sand to a wide swath depending on the tides. Also depending on a number of factors, from tides to how much rain has fallen in the hills and how swollen the river is, the water can be a deep coca-cola colour (from tannins- still very clean) to crystal clear – so clear and the river bottom so shallow and white in the summer months that you’d be forgiven for thinking you’d been transported to the Maldives.
There are more often than not wide sandbanks with barely a foot or two of water covering them, and on a hot day this can heat up to bath water temperature quite quickly. At its best, there is simply no better place on earth to take the littlies swimming. It’s gorgeously pretty too, with row-boats, ski boats lazing up and down the boat channel on the far side, and ocean breakers just beyond.
As a local – there have been days I’ve floated around on my back in that lagoon, half asleep under my shades with my toes sticking out, when I’ve thought I must have died and gone to heaven. On the more practical side…it really is one place that is as safe for toddlers to wade and splash about in, the worst menace being the odd hermit crab scuttling about.
This lagoon beach is accessed from the residential area of the Poortjies. There are public toilets but no other public amenities.
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