History of Buffels Baai

Province: Western Cape
Garden route
Coordinates: 34°05′S 22°58′E
Area:0.82 km2
Municipality Knysna

Buffels Baai or Buffalo Bay is so named because there were hundreds of buffalo in the area until the last ones were killed in 1883.
Originally as a holiday town, there was no road and one had to travel there by mule wagon. A gravel road was built in about 1944.
More recently Buffels Baai was the scene of a shipping disaster when the cargo ship Kiani Satu, traveling from Hong Kong to Ghana with a shipment of rice, ran aground and sank off the coast of Buffels Baai in August 2013. The oil that leaked from the vessel threatened the nearby Goukamma Nature Reserve; 217 birds were cleaned and rehabilitated by SANCCOB after the spill.

The postcode for Buffels Baai is

Things to see and do in Buffels Baai

Goukamma Nature Reserve
Hiking trails in the area,

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Useful Numbers in Buffels Baai

Municipality – Knysna Municipality-044 302 6300
Police: 044302 6688
Traffic department:044 302 6551/ 044 302 6337
Fire: 044 302 8911`
Ambulance: 044382 5613
Post office; Sedgefield Post Office- 044 343 163
Library: Leisure Isle Library 044 302 6311
Closest hospital;Knysna Provincial Hospital-044 302 8400
Knysna Town Clinic-044 382 0836
SPCA:Garden Route SPCA-044 693 0824

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