The pre-colonial hunter gatherer people were the nomadic tribes indigenous to the Western Cape coast. This tribe lived off the marine pantry provided by nature collecting shellfish and other marine creatures and ate bulbs and tubers for vitamins. Medicine came from wild herbs.
The unspoilt beaches and shoreline west of Mossel Bay, up to the Gourits River, offer relaxing hikes with small mammals, reptiles, marine- and bird-life in abundance.
Duration: 4 day(s)
Departure time: 8 AM for each of the four days.
Pickup info: Mossel Bay bus terminal, Mossel Bay, George Airport, Mossel Bay air strip
Price: R1850pp
Day 1:Arrive at Vlees Bay tented camp and settle in. Early evening briefing in your camp with organisers.
Day 2: After breakfast meet your guide and with him cross the dunes to the ancient fish traps and then meander along the beach to Fransmanshoek passing historic Fonteintjies Bay. From here walk through indigenous dune thicket back to your camp.
Day 3: After breakfast pack up your belongings and carry it to The Pondokkie at Boggoms Bay where you will spend the next two nights.The rest of the day you kike towards Dana Bay and back on the dunes edge as well as on the beach. Return to Pondokkie at leisure.
Day 4: After breakfast we transport you to the Gourits river for a guided day of kayaking, fishing (allowed if you bring you fishing permit) and bird watching on the river. You start from the remains of the old Gourits River bridge that was washed away by the 1981 Lainsburg flood. At the end of the day we transport you back to Pondokkie at Boggoms Bay.
Day 5: After breakfast, pack up, say your good byes at the base camp and hike back to Vlees Bay tented camp at leisure - about 4 km - and depart from there.
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