Tag Archives: Swartvlei Beach

The Garden Route National Park has it all!

From mountains to beaches, with lakes, rivers and forests in between – the Garden Route National Park has it all!

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The Beach

I’ve wonderful childhood memories of Swartvlei Strand (Beach), in the Wilderness section of the Garden Route National Park, near the town of Sedgefield in South Africa’s Western Cape Province. The unique rock formation some distance from the beach has always been fascinating to me, resembling a male lion lying down, looking out over the Indian Ocean.

The Beach_Swartvlei Strand

The Beach(2)_Swartvlei Strand

We’re participating in the online adventure travel and photography magazine LetsBeWild.com‘s Wild Weekly Photo Challenge for bloggers. This week’s challenge is “The Beach