The aquamarine waters of Preekstoel (Pulpit) in the West
Coast National Park, where we ended up, are reminiscent
of an exotic holiday in a foreign country.
I can’t believe that I never discovered
this paradise before. Why didn’t anyone tell me
about this place?
I suspect, judging from the amount of people that were
there, that it is a very well kept secret. I hope I am
not effen it up by telling the world about it!
Come to think of it, I am.
So, I will not divulge too much.
I have to mention ‘Eve’s
Footprints’ though.
‘The Footprints of Eve’ is the popular
name for a set of fossilized footprints discovered on
the shore of Langebaan Lagoon in 1995. They are thought
to be those of a female human and have been dated to approximately
117,000 years ago.
This makes them the oldest known footprints
of an anatomically-modern human. The date also means that
the individual who left these footprints in this soil,
if female, is a candidate for the title of Eve (the hypothetical
common ancestor of modern humanity.)
I am not saying that Adam and Eve lived
in Langebaan.
Did they?
But Preekstoel and Kraalbaai is definitely in paradise.
