4-Night Oystercatcher Trail
Our famous Oystercatcher Trail; it's a Love Affair with Nature!
5-day, 4-night guided coastal walk
Rates include a local guide, luxury accommodation & all meals
Oystercatcher Trail: 4 nights, 5 days
Walk from Mossel Bay's Cape St. Blaize to the Gourits River Mouth in the company of a knowledgeable and entertaining local guide - and discover ancient history that goes back to the dawn of modern human behaviour.
You'll walk in the company of new friends in a small group (usually no more than about 12 guests).
- Includes accommodation, guide fees, luggage transport, and all meals (on some days you’ll carry your own picnic lunch, on others we'll serve lunch on the beach)
- Accommodation is provided in superbly-appointed local guesthouses - with some nights at the traditional-style Sandpiper Cottages at Boggomsbaai
- Boat trip across the Gouritz River
- A new and fresh look at Nature and life
You’ll walk carrying just your daypack - but you’ll leave with more than a pack-full of memories!
Rates: 2018 Oystercatcher Trail
- R 7,450.00 per person sharing (minimum 4 guests)
- Please talk to us if your party includes less than 4 people - we can try to arrange for you to walk with another group, which'll ensure that the price remains as quoted (and that you'll make new friends!)
- Rates valid to 10 December 2018
Rates: 2019 Oystercatcher Trail
- R 8,600.00 per person sharing (minimum 4 - added to a group)
- R 9,200.00 per person sharing (minimum 4 private group)
- Point of Human Origins Experience: www.humanorigin.co.za will be part of the love affair with nature from 2019!
- Please talk to us if your party includes less than 4 people - we can try to arrange for you to walk with another group, which'll ensure that the price remains as quoted (and that you'll make new friends!)
- Rates valid from 10 January 2019 to 10 December 2019
Optional extras
- Point of Human Origins Experience: www.humanorigin.co.za (2018)
- Drinks will be charged to your personal account
- Massages at Sandpiper Sports Centre (please arrange with us before your Trail begins)
The Oystercatcher Trail: day-by-day
Day 1: Mossel Bay
Dinner and a good rest before the walking begins
- Arrive and check-in at your accommodation in Mossel Bay
- Enjoy sundowners with a member of the Oystercatcher Trail team
- Dinner at a local restaurant (transport will be arranged by the restaurant. Drinks for your own account).
Day 2: Mossel Bay to Dana Bay
Today's walk: mostly cliff paths. Amazing views!
- Todays walking: 15 km
- Your guide will meet you at your guest house, and will arrange your luggage for collection by our road transport service.
- Please remember to carry your day pack with you - with sunblock, a towel, swimming costume, camera, etc.
- Walk to a local restaurant for breakfast; you’ll receive an Oystercatcher Trail water bottle and your lunch-pack for the day.
- Walk with your guide to the St. Blaize Cave for the actual start of your Oystercatcher Trail.
- Meander and explore with your guide along the cliffs and contour paths, and via the St Blaize Trail and Pinnacle Point Golf & Beach Estate to Dana Bay.
- Enjoy a picnic lunch en route.
- Road transport from Dana Bay to Sandpiper Cottages in Boggomsbaai, where welcome snacks will be served.
- Dinner at Sandpiper Sports Centre (Drinks for your own account).
- Overnight at Sandpiper Cottages
Day 3: Dana Bay to Boggomsbaai
Today's route: mostly beachy!
- Today’s walking: 12 km
- Breakfast at Sandpiper Sports Centre. Receive you lunch packs for the day - and remember to replenish your Oystercatcher Trail water bottle!
- Road transport to Dana Bay to continue your walk.
- Today you’ll be walking along the beach - with frequent sightings of dolphins and (between May and October), the migratory southern right whales that come here to mate and calve.
- Visit ancient Khoi San middens in the dunes, and enjoy a picnic lunch en route.
- Welcome snacks at Sandpiper Cottages.
- Afternoon at leisure.
- This might be a good time for a pampering massage at the Sandpiper Spa (but this is an optional extra - please arrange it with us before your trail begins). Or you could play a game on the Sandpiper Sports Centre’s tennis court or glass back squash court, or enjoy a bit of chill time on the deck.
- Dinner at Sandpiper Sports Centre.
- Overnight at Sandpiper Cottages.
Day 4: Boggomsbaai to Gourits River
From beaches to rocky shores.
- Today’s walking: 21 km
- Breakfast at Sandpiper Sports Centre.
- Walk along the beach and rocky shore to Fransmanshoek - a small nature reserve with abundant bird life and beautiful veld flowers (where La Fortune was wrecked in 1763 en route from Mauritius to France: Fransmanshoek means ‘French Corner’).
- Enjoy a beach lunch, and snorkeling and swimming in the secluded bay.
- Walk to Kanon Private Nature Reserve (about 3 km east of the Gourits River Mouth), which protects one of the few remaining patches of Gourits Coastal Dune Thicket.
- Visit ancient Khoi San fish traps and the giant dunes along the way - and if you’re fit enough, you might like to climb the dunes!
- Continue walking to the Gourits River Mouth.
- Cross the river by boat
- Road transport back to Sandpiper Cottages
- Farewell Dinner at the Sandpiper Sport Centre. (Drinks for your own account).
- Overnight at Sandpiper Cottages.
Day 5: Goodbye!
Your last, lingering breakfast with us. Sigh...
- Breakfast at Sandpiper Sports Centre.
- Road transport to Mossel Bay.
- Let the memories begin!
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