Road Trip Day 52. More Fun in Knysna

It rained overnight and settled into a steady drizzle this morning. No wind, fortunately. We decided to brave the wet and cycle to Knysna centre again. Knysna has a very distinctive character. The main industry used to be timber mills and a lot of the forest was decimated. More recently controls have been put in place to save the forests, eg only one tree in a hectare can be cut down per year. Trees that will die in the next ten years are also cut down to make space for younger saplings. Wood and wooden products are big here. So is sailing.

Along our lagoon foot path we came across a lot of the sailing character.

We got to the Waterfront, which is obviously a very popular tourist attraction.  We saw and heard tourists and tourist groups from many countries. Shops selling curios and Africana abound, plus a number of eating places (some specialising in oysters and other sea food.)

Again, there are boats moored all along the water's edge. We saw a huge mast being installed on a large luxury catamaran by a mobile crane-truck. Apparently the mast was manufactured in Cape Town and trucked to Knysna.

Wooden carvings and sculptures were everywhere.

We needed to buy some more meat for tonight's braai as well as bananas. (The ones at the KwikSpar up the hill were R23.99 per kg.) We explored two more malls. Each seems to have a theme.  The one where Checkers was had machinery from the saw mills as display pieces all over.  The Woodmill Lane Shopping Centre was themed on machines. There were working water features where variations of paddle wheels turned, buckets got filled and emptied.

There were also various wall sculptures involving bicycles or bicycle wheels.

The weather cleared up a bit in the afternoon and then started drizzling again soon after we got back.

Again it stopped for us to be able to braai and gave us another beautiful sunset.

The end of another lovely day in the motorhome.