Klein Karoo to Knysna Bay

Tuesday November 3, 2015

We left Le Plume and the Klein Karoo this morning for a 2 hour drive to Knysna, which is a city on Knysna Bay that connects to the Indian Ocean.  The arid environment has been exchanged for a lusher coastal environment.  Our trip took us over the mountains and into the city of George, which is on the coast and is where we depart on Friday for our trip back to the US.   

View Toward George and Indian Ocean

VBT Group

From George, we had about an hour drive to Knysna and the beginning of our cycling for the day.   

We started at a lookout on a hill overlooking Knysna Bay and proceeded to cycle onto the drive that goes around the bay.   

Beginning of Ride

A beautiful part of the ride was on Leisure Isle, which is a island in the bay with many large homes and views of the bay inlet.   

Inlet from Indian Ocean

We then exited the island and cycled toward the inlet where we had lunch at East Head.  There was also a short walk out to the rocky inlet with great views of the inlet from the Indian Ocean and back into the bay.   

Lunch at East Head was outside with good views of the inlet.  Afterwards, we retraced our ride, but stopped at the Waterfront, which contains a marina and shops.   

Then we continued on to Belvidere Manor where we will be staying for three nights.  The Manor has several cottages and a good view of the Bay.  We had a relaxing few hours before dinner.  Dinner was somewhat exotic with smoked crocodile carpaccio as an appetizer, antelope as the entre’, and dark chocolate pate’ for dessert.  All of the food was outstanding.