Our final day at Storms River Mouth in the Tsitsikamma was mostly spent hiking around the forest and along the coastline. From tomorrow we’ll be visiting with Marilize’s parents so we will be quiet for the next few days until our travels pick up again early in the New Year.
Today was one of those days at the seaside where you needed every type of clothing from a sun hat to a rain jacket!
We’ve moved base again, this time to the Storms River Mouth Rest Camp, in the Tsitsikamma section of the Garden Route National Park. We’re enjoying a prime view from our seaside campsite.
Merry Christmas, Everyone! We had a lovely summer Christmas Day out in nature here at Wilderness. We hope that, if you celebrate the holiday, that you had a blessed time with friends and family too wherever you are.
We spent the morning at the world-renowned Cango Caves near the town of Oudtshoorn in the Little Karoo. We’ll be telling and showing you more of the Cango Caves in January.
We’ve arrived safely at our next base – the Ebb-and-Flow Rest Camp in the Wilderness section of the Garden Route National Park – though our initial explorations were severely curtailed by intermittent rain showers.
Today was our final full day camping on the game farm Aloe Canyons near Swellendam. Tomorrow we’re moving our camp eastwards, to the Wilderness section of the Garden Route National Park.
A terribly wet and windy morning saw us heading westwards, to the ever popular African Penguin colony at Stony Point Nature Reserve in Betty’s Bay.
Later, after a hearty lunch in the hamlet of Baardskeerdersbos, we headed to the Agulhas National Park and Africa’s southernmost point (enjoying it in much better weather than we had at the start of the day!).
We spent today at one of the most beautiful and diverse conservation areas in our country, the wonderful De Hoop Nature Reserve! More about De Hoop here.
We spent most of the morning exploring the Bontebok National Park, which is located just about half-an-hour away from where we’re staying at Aloe Canyons. Bontebok is a very special little reserve of which we are very fond and as always she delivered very nicely indeed!
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