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"The stresses and sounds of the city were getting to me," explains Lucille Byrnes. Traffic snarl-ups, triggered burglar alarms and yapping dogs were beginning to take their toll. "It was on a weekend escape from the hustle and bustle that I found myself in utopia."
In his pioneer voyage from Europe to the East, Vasco da Gama came upon a bay, which he named St Helena (and the Berg River the Santiago), having landed there on 7 November 1497. A monument marking the event has been erected close to the main road at Stompneusbaai. Local legend has it that one of his crewmen is buried on the hillside, a victim of the scurvy scourge - or perhaps a drunken brawl? Here old Portuguese coins and pieces of porcelain have been uncovered.
"At the westernmost point lies Britannia Bay - but more about the naming further on. My seaside cottage soon proved too small for all the visitors who came to

see the back-of-beyond that I had chosen to make my home,' says Lucille. "After a weekend of chilling out, they would return to the city, their envy quite apparent." Plans were then drawn up to include guests' accommodation and Dolphin B&B+S/C opened its doors in August 1998 - the first establishment in this area to do so - and Lucille still finds pandering to her guests' needs fun and fulfilling and loves sharing her little corner of heaven with visitors to this area. "Dit is vir my 'n groot eer om gaste van orals be bedien, om hulle te wys hoe pragtig is die area waar ek tuis gemaak het," sê Lucille. .

"My guest base stretches from Junea to Alaska to the outbacks of Australia and it is this interchange of cultural ways that continues to stimulate and interest me. I sometimes feel I should be paying them; after all, they're my entertainment," she quips. Now into her thirteenth year ("Lucky for me!") of hosting visitors from all four corners of the globe, Lucille is reaping the rewards of returning guests - "I must be doing something right!"
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