The Kokerboom indigenous trees stand isolated in contrast to the wide open African skyline and rocky ground. The wildlife in the area live a battling life survival for the fittest over all generations.

Augrabies Falls National Park is a home to a variety of wildlife, ranging from giraffe and buck as well as reptile to bird species. Over 55 hectares of ground, you can spot Klipspringer, Pygmy, Falcons, Black storks, Gemsbok among others, which visit this beautiful region.

Augrabies Folk story.
The bushmen of the region gave a story about the snakelike creature with scales, which shines in the moonlight, which falls upon the Garcup river. This serpent is known to capture men and pull them down the deep waters beneath the waterfall’s froth, where it would dine on their limbs. However, bushmen dreamt of capturing its treasure.

A beautiful diamond girl is the treasure, which it wears on her head and its believed that if you capture this treasure, you will become more successful and you will live a happier life. However, its this crystal clear diamond which the serpent uses to attract its victims, while the serpent eats her breakfast for one day. It removes her beautiful jewel and hides it in the reeds.

A young man saw it and carefully o the diamond quickly while the serpent was not looking ad he ran a way believing his life is to become a dream.
However, there was one thing that spoiled the happiness of this young man. When the man was fully reflected off the shimmering scales of this serpent, this young man could hear her sorrowfully weeping in the gentle night breeze.

The serpent inquired among the creatures if they had seen her jewel and an otter one day told her that a to-legged yellow creature had taken the gem. However, luckily for this young man, a springhare informed him that the serpent was on to his search.
This young thief thought of the situation and decided to hide the gem where the serpent had hid it originally in the reeds. The serpent came to the bushman demanding to know where her jewel was with fury in her eyes and the fire in her mouth and then this young man stood and said, “I will help you look for your jewel”.

He took the serpent down to the river and pointed out to the reeds saying, you should have looked a bit harder see!!. The serpent was happy again and the bushmen a warded the young man with a title and gifts and thought that he was extra ordinarily brave.
If you look carefully and you are lucky, you may be able to see this shimmering creature under the full moon light in the waters of the Garcep.