The West Coast. From Melkbos to the Orange River

The West Coast, from Melkbos to the Orange River, reveals a bounty of treasures that gives the Weskus, as locals call it, its particular allure.
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Title: The West Coast
Subtitle: From Melkbos to the Orange River
Author: Leon Nell
Publisher: Penguin Random House South Africa
Cape Town, South Africa 2021
ISBN 9781775847021 / ISBN 978-1-77-584702-1
Softcover, 21 x 25 cm, 159 pages, throughout colour photographs, 2 maps

About: The West Coast. From Melkbos to the Orange River

Increasingly popular with nature lovers and tourists alike, the West Coast is South Africa's most enigmatic coastline, a place of wild seas, windswept beaches, expansive coastal plains and warm, hospitable people. The author begins his journey at Melkbosstrand near Cape Town and ends in the far north where the Orange River drains into the Atlantic Ocean. Along the way he explores the coast's history, its seaside towns and villages, fauna and flora, agriculture, the romance of past mining days, and the eccentricities of its inhabitants. The West Coast - From Melkbos to the Orange River is divided into four sections. Among its features are: spectacular floral riches of the West Coast and Namaqualand, the discovery of 5-million-year-old faunal fossils in the West Coast Fossil Park, Eve's footprints, early human activity at Elands Bay, and the preservation of San history at !Khwa ttu, Langebaan Lagoon and offshore islands in Saldanha Bay, national parks, nature reserves, wetlands and estuaries and their attendant wildlife, bustling wine farms, famous eateries and cultural attractions, among them Pieter-Dirk Uys's Evita se Perron, colourful tales of West Coast families the allure of the Diamond Coast. The magic and mystery of the West Coast captured here promise to stir curiosity and awaken the wanderlust of all readers.

Content: The West Coast. From Melkbos to the Orange River

Acknowledgements
West Coast Maps
INTRODUCTION
Geology in a nutshell
The South Atlantic Ocean
Bounty from the sea
The first ones
Agriculture
SOUTH - Melkbosstrand to Darling
Melkbosstrand
Koeberg Nature Reserve
The Cape West Coast Biosphere Reserve
!Khwa ttu - the lost world of the San
Yzerfontein
Dassen Island
Darling
CENTRAL - West Coast National Park
to St Helena Bay
West Coast National Park
Churchhaven
Postberg
Seeberg
Langebaan
Hopefield
Saldanha Bay
Jacobsbaai
West Coast Fossil Park
Vredenburg
Drought and deluge
Paternoster
Cape Columbine (Tietiesbaai)
St Helena Bay
NORTH - Velddrif to Lambert's Bay
Velddrif, Port Owen and Laaiplek
Aurora
Soverby
Dwarskersbos
Rocherpan Nature Reserve
Redelinghuys
Verlorenvlei
Elands Bay
Leipoldtville
Lambert's Bay
THE DIAMOND COAST - Doringbaai
to the Orange River
Doringbaai
Strandfontein
The Olifants River
Vredendal
Lutzville
Koekenaap
Hondeklipbaai
Koingnaas
Namaqua National Park
Kleinzee
Port Nolloth
Alexander Bay and Oranjemund
The Orange River
EPILOGUE
Bibliography
Index

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