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    Cape West Coast Guide Safari.
    Cape West Coast Guide Safari.
    Cape West Coast Guide Safari.
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    Cape West Coast Guide Safari.

    By Gerald Jonas

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    Go to Darling for wines, the West Coast National Park for flowers and game, Saldanha for views and food, Vredenburg, St Helena Bay, Elands Bay, The Swartland for sweet wine. Piketberg for views, Citrusdal for fruit and the Cedar Mountains spectacular walks and Bushman art.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherGerald Jonas
    Release dateDec 16, 2012
    ISBN9781301210145
    Cape West Coast Guide Safari.
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    Gerald Jonas

    Tour Guide, ex soldier, Round Table 41er, ex Rotary, Historian. been there, done that, got the bloody T shirt and the scars.

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      Cape West Coast Guide Safari. - Gerald Jonas

      Cape West Coast Guide Safari

      Table of Contents

      Chapter 1-Background charm

      Chapter 2-Darling

      Chapter 3-West Coast National Park

      Chapter 4-Langebaan

      Chapter 5-Saldanha

      Chapter 6-Vredenburg

      Chapter 7-St Helena Bay

      Chapter 8-Elands Bay

      Chapter 9-Swartland

      Chapter 10-Piketberg

      Chapter 11-Citrusdal, Cedarberg.

      Chapter 12-Tours: Agri, Wine, Seafood, Mission, Flower, Birding.

      By Gerald Jonas

      Copyright 2012 Gerald Jonas.

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      Chapter 1:The West Coast has its own charm. At first glance it seems flat and uninteresting. It has wide open spaces and one can breath fresh unpolluted air, explore the rich unspoilt Atlantic coast line, with a lot less people and traffic.

      In Spring: September October, the wild flowers are overwhelmingly beautiful with a bewildering multitude of colours and species, sub species and local variants that have adapted to the long dry summers and cool wet winters. The wines, crayfish and oysters have a distinctive taste, as does the whole area. An acquired taste and then you are hooked. Beware: The West Coast can be beneficial to your happiness and health.

      This is the greatest flower show on earth. Flowers For Africa.

      The R 27 takes one to Milnerton, Blaauberg; with the Finest View of Table Mountain, on the coastal road, with Robben Island on your left and on a windy day, kite surfers flying the waves.

      Riet Vallei: Swampy area next to R27. It used to a cattle outpost for the Voc at the fountain where the Aquatic Club/ Sancob is now.

      On the 6 /7th January 1806 General Janssen and his Batavian troops camped as they marched to defend themselves against the British that were landing at Melkbosstrand for the 2nd British Occupation. After the Battle 8th January 1806, the British also used this as a camp site. Birding; not too bad at times. Also used by model aeroplane, Sailing and boating enthusiasts.

      Big Bay: Surfing area, especially for the young set. 8th January, 1806, 11.00 Admiral Popham lands Marines to cut off the retreating Janssen at the Battle of Blaauberg.

      Melkbos / Losperd Bay: Where the British landed on 6th January 1806 and the Dutch forces waited in the valley of the 231m Blouberg[ Blue] Hill. A quiet sea side village, away from it all, with everything you need there.

      Koeberg Nuclear Power station; Built by the French and operational in 1985. The only nuclear power station in South Africa. Good birding in their area. Go through security.

      Mamre: Groene Kloof; In 1697 it was a cattle post establish by Simon van der Stel, who naturally planted oaks there and later because of cattle rusting W van der Stel, his son, established a military post here, with a sergeant and a section of ten men. A garrison served in this region until 1791.

      The mission station, with all its oak trees, and now also Bluegums was established in 1808 by the German Moravian Society, in the fertile Groenekloof with its three pure water springs as a sanctuary for the few remaining Khoi tribes; the Cochoquas, Goringhaiquas and Gorachouquas, who had survived two small pox epidemics.

      Biblical references: ‘Abram moved his tent and came and settled by the oaks of Mamre [fatness] which are at Hebron and there he built an altar to the Lord’ Genesis 13;18 Genesis 18;1-32: And the Lord appeared to him by the oaks of Mamre. Genesis 35; 27 And Jacob came to his father Isaac at Mamre.....and Isaac breathed his last.’

      The Moravians are German Protestants who accept the Bible as the only source of Faith and was founded in Saxony by emigrants from Moravia. The Earl of Caledon was impressed with the work they had done at Genadendal and granted them this land on the West Coast.

      The 1697 old farm house and hunting lodge for W van der Stel was later used as the

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