Weekend Getaway: Kaia at Outerkom

Paul Ash, lover of lighthouses and shipwrecks, battens down the hatches in this self-catering cottage in Kommetjie Our story begins with the freighter SS Kakapo ploughing southwards off the Cape peninsula on a storm-swept night in May 1900.It was a maiden voyage not only for the ship, named for a parrot found in New Zealand - although given how the night ended, the Afrikaans slang is apposite - but also for her captain, Niels Peter Fischer Nicolaysen, who was making his first voyage with a fre...