A part of East London, South Africa on the Indian Ocean coast.
Nahoon point is popular as a sandy beach and a surfing spot. It is also the location of a Nature Reserve.
Everything was closed at the Nature Reserve building including the restaurant. No shopping for souvenirs here today or washroom breaks either. Not everything is open on a Sunday.
Fortunately, the boardwalks were open and we were able to follow them over the sand dunes and through the fragile groundcover that was limiting further erosion of the sand.
At the foot of these cliffs that are being eroded by the sea, someone found ancient footprints. They were not prints in the current level of sand but from the layers of calcifying sand above their head.
The historic record is stored in the East London Museum. They show Homosapien and animal footprints walking together.
A plaque in the museum explains how these prints were preserved and later made visible to us.
What do you think you might find among the stones of this coastline?
That doesn’t look ‘sandy’ to me, Doug!
Great Pictures. Were those horse tracks along with the homo sapiens? I have never heard of this place.
Hi Doug,
The prints are not a horse but more like the South American guanaco or alpaca. The actual species is believed to be extinct. The print has a shape more like a goat than a horse.