The flower season along the West Coast of the Western Cape happens every year around August, often extending into September. Some wild flowers may open as early as July and may stay open as late as October – this is highly dependent on the timing of the winter and spring rains and the prevailing weather conditions, and varies from place to place.
Jacobsbaai is situated in the middle of the Cape West Coast Biosphere Reserve stretching northward from Diep River in Cape Town to the Berg River, covering 378,000 hectares of coastal lowland plains. The Biosphere promotes a balanced approach to the development of humans and the preservation of bio diversity in a particular region.
Contact Paul Mare on WhatsApp +49 151 4406-3404 for magical tours of the spring flowers in our area in the months of August – October.
West Coast National Park
The West Coast National Park lies just South of Jacobsbaai, bordered by the Atlantic Ocean on the west and the R27 coastal road on the east, running from Langebaan Lagoon in the north to the town of Yzerfontein in the south.
The park is particularly well known for the thousands of migrating birds thar are an important part of the conservation, but the annual spring flowers is also a major attraction.
The park is composed of various kinds of habitats — as well as the Langebaan fynbos and lagoon — which account for the variety of flora and fauna all around the park. The months of August and September bring about the proliferation of annual Spring flowers in the West Coast National Park, in particular in the Postberg flower reserve section of the park.
During the spring flower season large fields of blooming White rain daisies (Dimorphotheca pluvialis), Gousblom (Arctotis hirsuta), Magriet (Ursinia anthemoides), Livingstone daisies (Dorotheanthus bellidiformis), and Wild sorrel (Oxalis pes-caprae) can be seen along with other species of flowing plants.
