Fairlight Beach House: Umdloti is a little coastal town just outside Durban, which didn’t even exist at the turn of last century. Now a thriving little town bustling with restaurants, beach homes and surfers, it’s one of the best escapes on our doorstep and a weekend spent there provides the perfect antidote to city life. Back in the early 1900s, all that existed was vegetation and sand dunes. But a young Kimberley diamond prospector bought a plot of land unsighted and made his way down to Natal and then on to Umdloti by ox wagon from Verulam, to the site where he would later build his family home – a modest wood and iron cottage and the first (and at the time only) home in Umdloti. That man was Squire Bacon, and his second wife, Margaret Bacon, is whom the road on which Fairlight Beach House now stands is named. Its present-day iteration is that of a guesthouse managed by Colin Deeb, the great-nephew of Squire and after renovation and upgrades, sleeps up to 16 people in 8 beautifully appointed suites, all with the most magnificent view of the Indian Ocean – and many a dolphin or whale. Colin grew up on this […]
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