Featherbed Bay

Featherbed Bay is a bay in Knysna Local Municipality, Garden Route District Municipality, Western Cape.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Featherbed Nature Reserve and Leisure Island.

Featherbed Nature Reserve

Nature reserve

Featherbed Nature Reserve is a privately owned nature reserve on the Western Headland of the Knysna River Estuary on South Africa’s Garden Route. It was founded by South African television teacher, William Smith, on land that was bought in the 1950s by his…

Leisure Island

Island

Photo: Rooiratel, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Pledge Nature Reserve

Nature reserve

Photo: Bellatjie, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Pledge Nature Reserve is a declared nature reserve located in the town of Knysna in the Garden Route district of the Western Cape province in southwestern South Africa.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Knysna and Brenton-on-Sea.

Knysna

Photo: Andresdewet, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Knysna, pearl of the scenic Garden Route, sits between George and Plettenberg Bay. Perennially green thanks to a Mediterranean Maritime climate with rain falling throughout the year, Knysna is mantled by indigenous forests extending into the Tsitsikamma National Park area.