If you like contemporary architecture, visit Freedom Park, next to the Voortrekker Monument, a massive structure built in commemoration of the eponymous Afrikaners who left the Cape between 1835 and 1854 to settle inland.
I now feel it's time to descend from my Baywatch observation tower, check in my towel and surfboard and hand over the responsibilities for patrolling the beach to my young, experienced successor Mark Kermode and settle down inland.
After Mr. Park's release from prison in 1979, he left Gaeyado and settled in an inland town.
"They call us 'saltwater Chinese', unlike the others who arrived here in the 19th century and have settled on farms further inland, close to freshwater rivers," says one such shop worker named Lia.
In 1854, Mormons settled in the upper Inland Empire area and started the city of San Bernardino, gaining prosperity by using water from the river, as well as Lytle Creek and Mill Creek, to irrigate crops.
Even with plans to settle 30 miles inland from where the water stands today, there is recognition that the coastline is a moving target.
The North was largely settled by English farmers, the inland South by Scots-Irish herders.
Many settled in Mendoza, 600 miles inland from the Atlantic and, to this day, a city more Italian in feeling than parts of Italy itself.
Yet sampling these seaside pleasures late in the 19th century, Henry James remarked that they were of relatively recent vintage compared with the antiquity of the country inland, which had been settled by the Norsemen and where some roads are Roman.
