Friday, February 12, 2010
The garden route is one of the famous beaches in south africa. This beach stretches from Mossel Bay in the Western Cape to the storm that crossed the River along the coastal highway N2 Paul Sauer Bridge in the west end of the reach of the Eastern Cape. Garden Route's name is taken from the green ecology and diverse vegetation there that we can meet. there also we will find.
Garden Route has the mildest climate in South Africa and a mild climate most of the world's second, after Hawaii, according to the Guinness Book of Records. Temperatures rarely drop below 10 º C minimum 'in the winter and seldom climb beyond 28 º C maximum' in the summer. Rain occurs throughout the year, with a little peak in the early months of spring, carried by moist sea breezes from the Indian Ocean and rainfall increased release of Outeniqua Mountains and along the Tsitsikamma just inland from the coast.
Aformentioned Garden Route is sandwiched between the mountains and the Indian Ocean. The Outeniqua and Tsitsikamma indigenous forests are a unique mixture of Cape Fynbos and forest climate and offers hiking trails and eco-tourism activities. Nearly 300 species of bird life can be found in various habitats ranging from Fynbos to the forest to wetlands.
Ten nature reserves embrace the varied ecosystems and unique marine reserves, home to soft coral reefs, dolphins, seals and some other marine life. Various bays along the Garden Route are nurseries to the endangered Southern Right Whale which come there to calve in the winter and spring (July to December).
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