Wildlife in the estate

We have a good variety of wildlife that you can search for while staying at Zeezicht and strolling on the footpaths in the estate. The most commonly spotted are...

Birds watchers:

  • Acacia Pied Barbet
  • Fiscal Shrike
  • Helmeted Guinea Fowl
  • Egyptian Goose
  • Cape Spur Fowl
  • African Hoopoe
  • Mousebirds (Red faced, Speckled, White backed)
  • Rock Kestrel
  • Spotted Thick Knees
  • Spotted Eagle Owl
  • Cape Eagle Owl
  • Terns (8 varieties)
  • Cape Wagtail
  • Weavers (Southern & Masked)

All things Creeping:

  • Horned Baboon spider
  • Cape Cobra
  • Cape Mole Snake
  • Strandveld Burrowing Scorpion

Special Plants:

  • Kukumakranka
  • Spiky Viperbrush
  • Spider Iris

To view from the beach:

  • Southern Right Whale
  • Heaviside Dolphins
  • Dusky Dolphins
  • African Black Oyster Catcher
  • Cormorant (Bank, Cape and Crowned)
  • African Penguin
  • Gulls (Hartlaub, Cape, Grey)
  • Cape clawless Otter
  • Cape Fur Seal

On the land

  • Cape Angulate Tortoise
  • Western Dwarf Chameleon
  • Steenbok
  • Cape Grey Mongoose
  • Cape Dune Mole Rat
  • African Wild Cat

In the water:

  • West Coast Rock Lobster
  • Harders (Red Mullet)
  • Cape Kelp Forests
  • Mussels (Black & White)