Storms River Mouth was one of my favourite places along the Garden Route. Indigenous forest and fynbos covers the area. Rivers have carved deep gorges as they wind their way from the plateau to meet the sea in a frothy mix at the mouth of Storms River.
We stayed in a cabin in Tsitsikamma National Park on the edge of the ocean. The crashing waves rocked us to sleep.
There are a number of walks in Storms River, and some paths hug the coastal cliffs and pass through dense thickets of stinkwood, yellow-wood and milkwood trees.
On our first day, we walked along the suspension bridges for a stunning view of the park’s diversity: sandstone and quartz rock formations line the gorge and rocky shoreline. In the right season, the fins of massive southern right whales are visible out in the ocean.
In the morning, before we left, we did the Blue Duiker trail. Sadly there were no Blue Duikers, but we did see the Kysna Loerie and lots more of the funny little dassies (rock hyrax) scurrying along the forest floor. Bizarrely, the animal's closest relative is the elephant, even though they look like under-sized wombats.
Here are some photos of the things we saw along the way.
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| Fynbos |
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| Black-shouldered Kite |
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| Spiders nest? |
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| Dassie |
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| Crab spider |
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| Knysna Loerie |
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| Reed buck |
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| Grasshopper |
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Knysna Loerie
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