Wednesday, June 30
Tsitsikamma National Park, RSA
After we peered down into the Storms River Gorge, we found our way down a windy road off of the N2 to the Storms River Mouth portion of the Tsitsikamma National Park (wiki). This park was absolutely gorgeous, and was possibly Josh’s favorite part of the trip. When we get back to Africa, we will definitely be staying a night or two here. We sat and watched the waves crashing at the mouth of the river, then hiked an easy 1km boardwalk of stairs along the mountainside to the suspension bridges that cross the mouth of the river. We would have loved to stay the night here at the darling oceanside cabins but it was only 4pm and we still had way too much daylight. We were just now officially on the Garden Route here at the mouth of the river and wanted to see some more of it before the sun went down. On our way out of the park we saw some dassies sunning themselves – and then we got to see some vervet monkeys! There are vervet monkeys at Addo, but we didn’t find any, and now we’ve seen some! We were pretty excited.
Jeannette took a lot of pictures of waves:
A nice little cove:
There were great views from the boardwalk steps all the way:
A calla lily (one of our wedding flowers – 2 days from our 5 year wedding anniversary!)
We loved Storms River Mouth:
The bridges:
Looking back towards the gorge we were just at:
More waves:
The dassies (we saw their cousins this very morning!):
The cabins were right down by the water:
Vervet monkeys:
