Paradise for sale to the highest bidder on the south Cape coast of Africa

Welcome to another edition of the Shape of the Cape. Today we explore the actual rocky shore of the south Cape coast of Africa, where the waves lap up to the stony beach. In today’s video clip you can see the beautiful shoreline but you can also see that someone has put up a big fence.
It looks like someone has bought their own chunk of paradise. The fence is blocking off access to a large chunk of the hillside and beach so someone has bought it for themselves. I am surprised as I thought this part of the coast would be common land. Obviously every piece has its price.
Some municipal person was happy to sell off this chink of the coastline to a private buyer. Fortunately there is still enough of the coastline to roam around freely. No one has built anything yet, and that may only be possible or allowed up on the hill top. So this remote fence will have to stand alone as the rare anomaly that shows how our pristine nature is being bought up in a land grab.
Soon these paradise cliffs may be only for those who can afford them. I hope it won’t happen too soon. I think we have a few years still. But there is a trend now, post covid, for people to rush to the coast or to a remote area for their new home purchases generally. The cities are less attractive now. So I would expect interested parties to come this way, since I live in the paradise we would all love to experience. I have been exploring here for over a decade and I still find new vistas and angles to write home about.