Sir Lambert's Guest House

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• Special discounted rates will be featured here when applicable.

STANDARD RATES:

• From R200 to R250 per person per night sharing, including a full English breakfast
• There is a 30% surcharge for single occupancy
• Children under 12 half price

ABOUT SIR LAMBERT'S GUEST HOUSE

• Sir Lambert’s Guest House is managed by its owners, Erwin & Juanita Birkholtz.
• We have been awarded 3 stars by the Tourist Grading Council of South Africa.
• We are a member of the Guest House Association of SA (GHSA).
• Recently we have also joined the AA Quality Assured Accommodation guide.

ACCOMMODATION FACILITIES

• We have 8 double rooms all en-suite: 4 with double beds, 3 with twin beds and a family room, which has a double and a single bed.
• There is a separate breakfast room and a cosy lounge where guests may relax, watch television (including DSTV) or read.
• We are within easy walking distance from the beach.

ABOUT LAMBERT'S BAY

The town was named after Sir Robert Lambert, an admiral in the British Navy at Cape Town, who surveyed this part of the coast between 1826 and 1840.

During the Anglo-Boer war the British sent a reconnaissance boat, the “Sybille”, to patrol the West Coast. Lambert’s Bay was identified as an excellent place to unload weapons and the boat was frequently seen in the area. One night in January 1901, a strong north wind drove the ship towards the rocks and the ship ran aground. The propeller stands in the grounds of the Sandveld Museum in town, where memorabilia are to be found. The wreck of the “Sybille” is on a nearby farm called “Steenbokfontein” and can be seen at low tide.

A crayfish factory was erected in 1918. Today only fish meal is processed in the factory and a potato chipping factory occupies part of the premises. These two concerns are the main employers in the town.

WHAT TO SEE & DO IN LAMBERT'S BAY

• Lambert’s Bay is renowned for its wild flowers. In spring the area is turned into a mass of colour by gazanias, mesembs, wild rosemary, restios the grey conebush and crassula shrubs.
• The flowers extend down to the beach where visitors can go for long walks in the surrounding veld.
• There are a number of eco-tour options, where amateur botanists will take you for guided drives on their farms (rooibos tea farm, wheat, barley).
• The surrounding area boasts an enormous diversity of floral wealth.
• At Verlorenvlei the rare Sandveld lily is found.

• Bird Island is the breeding ground of thousands of Cape gannets, cormorants, Jackass or African penguins and other sea birds.
• The island can be reached along a breakwater. The best time to visit is early in the morning or at sunset.
• Cape Shoveller, Great White Pelican, Lesser and Greater Flamingo, Gulls, Ducks, Wading birds, Shorebirds and Seabirds amongst others abound in the Lamberts Bay area
• Birders can also take a trip to Verlorenvlei where an estimated 500 Bird species have been recorded.
• Birds that occur here include Herons, Spoonbills, Plovers, Coots, Pelicans, Kingfishers, Flamingos, Geese, Ducks, Egrets, Sandgrouse, Quails, Francolins and Terns.
• Another trip that Birders could take is to Rocherpan where 183 species have been recorded.
• Here you could find the African Black Oystercatcher, Falmingos, Pelicans and about 70 species of water birds, wading birds, ducks and shorebirds amongst others.

• Lambert’s Bay is the best place to take a boat trip to encounter the small Heaviside’s Dolphins (Cephalorhynchus heavisidii). It is a speciality species and the only cetacean species to be found in Southern Africa, endemic specifically to the South African West coast.
• The area is also one of a few places on the South African coastline where you could view Dusky Dolphins (Lagenorhynchus obscurus).
• Common Dolphins (Delphinus delphis) can be seen, sometimes in large numbers.
• Southern Right Whales and occasional Humpback Whales can be seen in season.

• Crayfish diving during the season – November to April.
• Crayfishing from the boat (with a licence) can also be arranged.
• The annual Crayfish festival is during the long weekend in March. Besides all the various crayfish and seafood as well as traditional cuisine there are various stalls with interesting products. There is also entertainment with a number of well known musicians giving live performances.

• Excellent rock and surf fishing where you could catch Snoek, Galjoen, Cape Salmon, Grunters as well as the scarcer Shad and Yellowtail amongst others.
• Boats can also be hired for deep sea fishing.
• As the Cape West Coast is also known for its “Bokkoms” which are dried and salted fish (Harders or Mullet), Lambert's Bay is the place to buy some.

• Quad bike trails.
• Quad bikes can also be hired.
• 4 x 4 trails on the sand dunes.
• Unspoilt beaches to explore.
• Excellent surfing and water sports.
• Micro light flips.
• Kite surfing.

• Excellent al-la-carte restaurants
• There is also the “Plaaskombuis”, offering traditional South African farm fare in the old farm kitchen.
• Two unique outdoor restaurants, both offering fresh seafood buffets amongst a variety of other foods: on the beach is “Muisbosskerm” and on the rocks is “Bosduifklip”.

• The Sandveld Museum in Lambert's Bay, reflects the lifestyle and unique character of the early inhabitants.
• The Sandveld Museum is also home to a large number of mountain tortoises.
• An annual Art Exhibition is held every September on the farm Steenbokfontein.

• The Olifants River Wine route in the area, where you could buy wine at West Coast prices.

EXPLORE THE REGION

• The Cederberg - a 100 km long range of mountains that rises splendidly above the vineyards and citrus groves of the Olifants River valley
• The annual Spring (August / September) Wild Flower show is held in Clanwilliam. A small cultivated area at the Clanwilliam Dam is the Ramskop Wild Flower Garden, home to more than 200 different flowering plant species.
• Bushman rock paintings to be found in various locations
• Verlorenvlei and Rocher Pan (bird watchers paradise)
• Heerenlogement – a cave at the foot of the mountain, camp site of Governor Simon Van Der Stel and his expedition in 1865. The cave has been declared a National Historic Monument.
• Wupperthal – an 1830 Rhinish Mission station – shoe factory
• Clanwilliam shoe factory Strassbergers for real handmade shoes – “Vellies” or “Veldskoene”

On your next holiday come and visit us in Lambert's Bay, where we look forward to welcome you.

Erwin & Juanita Birkholtz

Contact Details:
Sir Lambert’s Guest House
Tel: 027 432 1117
Fax: 027 432 1190
Web address: www.lambertsbay.net

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