The Harbour Road waterfront development in Kleinmond is really a nice little lifestyle and food tourist hub for this small coastal Overstrand town. A couple of nice restaurants, a couple of interesting shops, pretty to look at architecture, and all of it overlooking Kleinmond’s tiny harbour and the big blue sea – it really is a nice spot that almost always has quite a good vibe thanks to the evergreen number of people popping in for a kuier.

Underneath all of that bustle, literally, you need to walk down below the parking towards the harbour to find it, is a little, lot less sophisticated, cafe that also just so happens to double as the local ice cream parlour. In addition to all the other cooldrink, sweets and chocolates, chips, gifts, and toys of questionable quality, Sunset Harbour Cafe and its soft serve machines also happily pumps out ice cream after ice cream to the seemingly never ending stream of people eager to cool off on a hot day.

Given that we had just spend the whole day traipsing about Hermanus, followed by a round of putt putt at Benguela Cove, the girls and I too joined the soft serve seeking throng, the last little treat before finally tackling that incredibly scenic Clarence Drive road back home.

You’ll miss it if you don’t know about it, and to be fair, I do think that the soft serve usually leans less towards the creamy side than what it should. Still, it is a great little treat to bait the girls into going for long nature walks with me, and if you so happen to be in the market for a fresh fish, Vannie Hoek right next door is definitely not going to disappoint either.

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