Plettenberg Bay

Our next stop along the Garden Route was Plettenberg Bay, a small coastal town with great beaches and a marine nature reserve nearby, the South African National Parks Robberg Reserve.

We walked out to the reserve via a 7km long stretch of wild beach. Once inside the reserve there are various walks of differing lengths along the coast line. We chose the 6km loop walk which took us out to the sand dunes, where you can walk across the sand bar at low tide to an island. The coastal scenery was fantastic and we saw hundreds of Cape Fur Seals. The winds got up in the afternoon making the sea quite rough so watching the waves crash against the coast was wonderful.