Tuesday, September 5, 2017

Garden Route to Knysna

We had a flight from Durban to Port Elizabeth, known as the friendly city. We had planned a swim on the local beaches but were late to arrive and after a drive around the historic areas of the town settled for an easy night. The cuisine is very sea food oriented!


                      The British heritage remains in great old buildings along with place names.

The next morning we were driving down the garden route to Knysna. There are beautiful wildflowers and rugged terrain


Even the toilet stops were interesting and an opportunity for a short walk.


This quaint little thing is actually the closest living relative to the elephant. It's common name is a Rock Dassie.

 Our next stop was at Tsitsikamma National Park at the Storm River Mouth. The surf was up.


We did the walk up and down hundreds of steps to the river mouth. Lots of stops required this one at a little waterfall.


We made it down and across the suspension bridge. It was built in 1969 but rebuilt in 2006.


                                                              Great coastline walking

Next stop is Knysna
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1 comment:

Amanda said...

That suspension bridge would terrify me.