We arrived this morning in bright sunshine but with a heavy swell that caused havoc in tendering from the ship and almost destroyed the whole day.
Mossel Bay is a small harbour town of some 130,000 inhabitants on the Southern Cape or Garden Route (Another item for the secondary bucket list) of South Africa. It is an important tourism and farming region of the Western Cape Province that lies 400km east of the parliamentary capital of SA in Cape Town and 400km west of the important industrial city of Port Elizabeth and the birthplace of Nelson Mandela.
Apart from its long sandy beaches Mossel Bay is famous for its caves where some of the earliest relics of man have been found. It is also the home of the Bartolemeu Dias Museum complex – Dias being the Portuguese navigator who discovered South Africa and opened up the important trade route to India. The area is also renowned for its oysters that are farmed at Knysna.
This is all by way of orientation since my shore tour was to the private game reserve at Botlierskop so I saw very little of Mossel Bay.
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