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    Dec 17, 2019 3 minutes

    EAST FORT, HOUT BAY

    Park on Chapman’s Peak Drive and walk down to the battery of cannons and powder magazine. This fort complex harks back to an era when Hout Bay was of great strategic significance to the Cape. Early settlers realised that the bay could serve not only as an alternative anchorage to Table Bay, but also as a possible landing place for invaders.

    Consequently, the area saw the building of a number of defences. Initial fort construction took

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