{"id":46295,"date":"2023-10-02T07:04:38","date_gmt":"2023-10-02T05:04:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/novanews.co.za\/kougaexpress\/jeffreysbaai-eerste-met-n-melkhout-roete-20230927-2\/"},"modified":"2025-03-13T15:50:41","modified_gmt":"2025-03-13T13:50:41","slug":"jeffreysbaai-eerste-met-n-melkhout-roete-20230927-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novanews.co.za\/kougaexpress\/jeffreysbaai-eerste-met-n-melkhout-roete-20230927-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Jeffreysbaai eerste met \u2019n Melkhout-roete"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jeffreysbaai was vroe\u00ebr bekend vir sy talle melkhoutbome, maar dit het mettertyd geweldig afgeneem weens mense wat uit onkunde die bome afgekap het. <\/p>\n

\u2019n Uithaler span Jeffreysbaaiers het saamgespan om mense meer bewus te maak van di\u00e9 kosbare bome wat \u2019n bewaarde spesie is. <\/p>\n

Dit was Soria Swart wat met die blink idee van \u2019n Melkhout-roete vorendag gekom het. Met verskeie vriende, die privaarsektor, individue en die munisipalitiet is di\u00e9 roete bekendgestel. <\/p>\n

Dit het gepaardgegaan met \u2019n boomplanting, en het saamgeval met Boomplantdag en Toeristemaand.<\/p>\n

\u201cDaar is talle melkhoutbome op munisipale grond en deur die dorp. Ons het met die hulp van die munisipaliteit se grafiese ontwerper, Sarina Engelbrecht, \u2019n kaart saamgestel vir die roete. Daar is ook uitsonderlike bordjies by elke boom met \u2019n QR-kode daarop wat met \u2019n selfoon skandeer kan word, en so word veel meer inligting ontsluit,\u201d borrel Swart.<\/p>\n

Roete<\/strong><\/p>\n

Die roete is sowat 17 kilometer lank en sluit 12 bome in. Dit kan gestap word, of mens kan met \u2019n fiets of motor ry. Die kaart vir die roete kan by die Toerisme kantoor in Da Gamaweg gekry word. Die skakel is ook op die Kouga Munisipaliteit se webblad beskikbaar by www.kouga.gov.za<\/span>.<\/p>\n

\u201cDit is veel meer waardevol om met \u2019n aktiwiteit soos stap of ry die roete te volg en te ervaar, as om net daarvan te lees of hoor. Wanneer mense die roete afl\u00ea, ontdek hulle terselfdertyd ander juwele van die dorp, soos die labirint wat ons verlede jaar ingewy het,\u201d s\u00ea Swart. Van die plekke wat besoek word op die roete is by Elza van Lingen Biblioteek, M.O.T.H. Park, Noorsekloof Natuur Reservaat, Da Gamaweg (oorkant SuperSpar), Flame Crescent, Supertubes, Kabeljauws Straat, Kabeljauws Lagoon, Poplar Park en die labirint in Noorsekloofweg.<\/p>\n

Permit<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cEk glo ook dis beter om mense bewus te maak van die waarde van die bome en die uitroeiing daarvan te voorkom, eerder as om boetes op te l\u00ea. \u2019n Permit is nodig om die beskermde bome te snoei of uit te haal,\u201d verduidelik Swart, wat ook \u2019n komiteeraadslid is met Toerisme as haar portefeulje.<\/p>\n

Waarde van melkhoutbome<\/strong><\/p>\n

Die landskapsargitek, Pieter Kok, wat deel was van die span, s\u00ea melkhoutbome is besonder gehard met \u2019n sterk wortelstelsel. \u201cDie melkoutbome is bestand teen die seewind en die wortelstelsel stabiliseer eintlik die duine. Die blare is sterk met \u2019n blink bolaag en die stamme is knoetserig. \u201cDie bome aard ook goed op rotsagtige gebiede, en word honderde jare oud,\u201d s\u00ea Kok.<\/p>\n

\u201cMaar die bekendste eienskap is die melkerigheid in die blaar wat te sien is as die blaartjies geknak word. Daar is ook donker bessies wat maklik afval. Dit kan bietjie lastig wees, maar ons hoop mense verduur dit vir die rukkie dat dit gebeur.\u201d<\/p>\n

Melkhoutbome as monumente<\/strong><\/p>\n

Kok vertel dat daar vier melkhoutbome in die land is wat as monument verklaar is. Die bekendste is die Posboom in Mosselbaai wat al van 1498 daar staan. Daar is ook een in Woodstock in Kaapstad wat as die Treaty boom bekend staan, en ook die Fingo boom in die Oos-Kaap wat al 600 jaar oud is. In Bredasdorp is daar nog \u2019n monumentboom by Renosterfontein.<\/p>\n

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Die Kouga Munisipaliteit se uitvoerende burgemeester, Hattingh Bornman, help hier leerders om \u2019n melkhoutboom te plant. <\/div>\n
<\/span>Foto: Verskaf<\/span> <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Spanwerk<\/strong><\/p>\n

Swart s\u00ea die projek is aangepak vir die nageslag \u2013 om die melkhoutbome te bewaar en mense daaroor op te voed. <\/p>\n

\u201cDit was die spanwerk van mense soos Pieter Kok, Zuanda Badenhorst, en Christa Venter, Sarina Engelbrecht en Monique Basson van die Kouga Munisipaliteit wat my gehelp het om die ikoniese roete tot stand te bring. En sonder die fondse van die privaatsektor sou ons dit nie kon doen nie.\u201d<\/p>\n

Sover bekend is dit die enigste melkhout-roete in die land. Daar word beoog om vir mense wat die roete voltooi het, \u2019n plakker te gee wat op \u2019n voertuig aangebring kan word.<\/p>\n

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  • Indien iemand \u2019n melkhoutboom wil snoei, verwyder of ongemagtigde afkap van die bome aanmeld, kan Pieter Kok geskakel word by 073 481 8828.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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