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Photo credits
The photographs on this website are used under Creative Commons and public domain licences from Wikimedia Commons, alongside property photography credited separately below. We are grateful to the photographers who have made their work available.
About the licences
- CC0 / Public domain: No attribution required, but credited as a courtesy.
- CC BY: Attribution required — author, source link, licence with link.
- CC BY-SA: Same as CC BY, plus adaptations must use the same licence.
Images have been resized for web use. Original files are available via the source links below.
| Image | Subject | Author | Licence | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 | De Kelders village and Walker Bay seen from the fynbos slopes of Grootbos Private Nature Reserve | Winfried Bruenken (Amrum) | CC BY 3.0 | Wikimedia |
 | Rocky shore and cliffs at De Kelders, Walker Bay | Shaun Mitchem | CC BY 2.0 | Wikimedia |
 | Sandstone ledges and beach on the De Kelders coast | s9-4pr | CC BY 2.0 | Wikimedia |
 | Coastal boardwalk and long beach below De Kelders, Walker Bay (camera location in De Kelders) | Alexander Wunschik | CC BY-SA 3.0 | Wikimedia |
 | Sandy path through coastal fynbos above the De Kelders shore | Alexander Wunschik | CC BY-SA 3.0 | Wikimedia |
 | Limestone cliffs and surf, De Kelders coast | Alexander Wunschik | CC BY-SA 3.0 | Wikimedia |
 | Large coastal cave with boardwalk at De Kelders (Klipgat Cave area, Walker Bay Nature Reserve) | Alexander Wunschik | CC BY-SA 3.0 | Wikimedia |
 | Cave arch on the De Kelders coast (Klipgat Cave area) | Alexander Wunschik | CC BY-SA 3.0 | Wikimedia |
 | Cave mouth and rocky shore on the De Kelders coast | Alexander Wunschik | CC BY-SA 3.0 | Wikimedia |
 | Southern right whale breaching in Walker Bay | Olga Ernst | CC BY-SA 4.0 | Wikimedia |
 | Southern right whale surfacing in Walker Bay, showing its callosities | lumoplank | CC0 | Wikimedia |
 | Southern right whale fluke near Hermanus | Josep M. Gracia | CC BY-SA 4.0 | Wikimedia |
 | Southern right whale mother and calf, seen from the shore at Hermanus | MartinEtsebeth | CC BY-SA 4.0 | Wikimedia |
 | Dunes and fynbos along the Walker Bay shore, seen from the water | lumoplank | CC0 | Wikimedia |
 | Mountains rising behind a white beach on Walker Bay | lumoplank | CC0 | Wikimedia |
 | The cliff path and rocky coast of Walker Bay at Hermanus | Josep M. Gracia | CC BY-SA 4.0 | Wikimedia |
 | Hermanus Old Harbour | Olga Ernst | CC BY-SA 4.0 | Wikimedia |
 | Voëlklip Beach, Hermanus, from the air | Soaring Heights Imagery | CC BY-SA 4.0 | Wikimedia |
 | Grotto Beach, Hermanus | Olga Ernst | CC BY-SA 4.0 | Wikimedia |
 | Where the Klein River lagoon meets the Atlantic in Walker Bay | Olga Ernst | CC BY-SA 4.0 | Wikimedia |
 | Danger Point Lighthouse near Gansbaai (established 1895) | Winfried Bruenken (Amrum) | CC BY 3.0 | Wikimedia |
 | Dyer Island off Gansbaai | Bernard DUPONT | CC BY-SA 2.0 | Wikimedia |
 | Great white shark near Gansbaai | Olga Ernst | CC BY-SA 4.0 | Wikimedia |
 | White shark cage diving near Gansbaai | Olga Ernst | CC BY-SA 4.0 | Wikimedia |
 | Cape fur seals on Geyser Rock, off Gansbaai | Bernard DUPONT from FRANCE | CC BY-SA 2.0 | Wikimedia |
 | Queen Victoria Street, Stanford village | Rooiratel | CC BY-SA 4.0 | Wikimedia |
 | Mountain fynbos at Phillipskop Nature Reserve, Stanford | Barbalaza83 | CC BY-SA 4.0 | Wikimedia |
 | Erica irregularis in flower, Grootbos Private Nature Reserve | SAplants | CC BY-SA 4.0 | Wikimedia |
 | Pincushion proteas (Leucospermum cordifolium) in natural fynbos, Fernkloof Nature Reserve, Hermanus | SAplants | CC BY-SA 4.0 | Wikimedia |
 | King protea (Protea cynaroides) in the hills above Harold Porter NBG, Betty's Bay | Dwergenpaartje | CC BY-SA 4.0 | Wikimedia |
 | The Hemel-en-Aarde Valley near Hermanus | Amada44 | Public domain | Wikimedia |
 | Vineyards in the Overberg | Axel Bührmann from Here, South Africa | CC BY 4.0 | Wikimedia |
 | African penguins (GENERIC — photographed at Boulders Beach, Simon's Town, not Gansbaai) | Dietmar Rabich | CC BY-SA 4.0 | Wikimedia |
Sample stay concept imagery (Villa The Berry)
The architectural illustrations shown on the Villa The Berry sample stay concept page are AI-generated concept images created to illustrate coastal design around Walker Bay and do not depict a specific bookable home.
Notes on specific images
- African penguins (african-penguins-generic.jpg):Photographed at Boulders Beach, Simon's Town (Cape Peninsula), not Gansbaai or Dyer Island. Used as a generic species image only.
- Great white shark images:Historic photographs from 2013–2015. Great white sightings at Gansbaai have been rare since 2017. Captions do not suggest visitors will see great white sharks.
- Klipgat Cave images:Identified from camera GPS coordinates near the SAHRA site location for Klipgat Cave. Source titles may say "Greater Hermanus" or "De Kelders".