英语听力：自然百科 徒步南非之花园大道 The Garden Route—4（在线收听） |
Dias and his crew were the very first northern hemisphere sailors to make it around the Cape of Good Hope, making Mossel Bay a start point for 500 years of European involvement in South Africa. Dias merely stopped here to replenish supplies and met peacefully with a tiny local populous. And today I’m being joined by a modern local, Willie Comane who’s agreed to accompany the crew and I as we step off the beaten trek. Oh, so how much longer have we got this beautiful rally?
It’s all about 80 to 210 km.
Excellent, that’s good.
Having wondered this coast his entire life, Willie is fiercely aware of the delicate balance between the garden route eco system and man’s modern development.
This is the clay, what you use, they use it when you’re walking in the sun and you put it on your face,
Oh, that’s the protection.
Protection for any, sometimes for insects want to bite in you. It’s very soft, you can feel it, put a little bit of water, and then you put it on your face.
Yeah, natural sun protection.
Yes, we should take some with us.
Yes, look at here, this is a baboon grape, you see, only the baboons eat it, if you eat it, you’ll die.
Baboon grape, really, poisonous, completely poisonous, but not for baboons.
Not for baboons, if you eat it, in 3 days, you will be sick, and in 3 days, and then you’ll die.
You die, after 3 days,
Yeah, yeah, after 3 days you die.
Dear me.
Yes.
Ok, so to be avoided, but for baboons, it’s good.
For baboons, it’s good.
Tiny little grape.
Yeah.
These rocky wind battered cliffs where botanists flock to see fine bush or fynbos as it’s better known enough for coms, a vast collection of 9,000 plant species, 2/3 of which are unique to south Africa. Table Mountain alone harbors more plant species than the whole of the UK. |
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