Yzerfontein
Thursday, February 02, 2006
Yzerfontein in Wikipedia
Wikipedia is an awesome endeavour - an encyclopedia created collabaritively by a community for free, where anybody can edit! I tried my hand at it and put in this entry for Yzerfontein.
Yzerfontein is a fishing villlage situated on South Africa's west coast. The area is known for its scenic beauty, sixteen mile-long beach and spring flowers.
Throughout the year fynbos can be found in the area, but in spring the dunes and veldin and around Yzerfontein. are covered with brightly coloured indigenous wild flowers.
Archaeological digs near the town have found remains of food and tools left by ancient people who inhabited the area of what is now Yzerfontein. Evidence shows that they also consumed shellfish, penguins, cormorants, tortoises, dune mole rats, snakes and ostrich eggs. However, no remains of fish have been found, leading to speculation that they did not make use of this particular resource.
About 10 kilometres due west of Yzerfontein is Dassen Island, known for its birdlife and penguin colony. From the top of Pearl Bay Heights on the southern end of Yzerfontein one can view (on a clear day) Table Mountain and Dassen Island.
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