Knysna
is a small town situated on South Africa's only National lake
which is also the country's largest permanent estuary. The waters
of the Indian Ocean channel through a break in the wave-cliff
terrace known as the Heads, into the wide lagoon basin, where
oyster farming is successfully practised.
The Garden Route remains more a scenic route that undulates along
the narrow coastal stretch, bordered by the Indian Ocean, and
the Tsitsikamma and Outeniqua mountain ranges, than a floral route.
