The Garden Route Recovery Centre is located in Plettenberg Bay, South Africa and within a short walking distance of the town centre which has an interesting selection of cafes and restaurants. Some of the cleanest beaches in the world are a few minutes away which are flanked on one side by the Oteniqua(which means ‘man with honey’) and Titsikama(place of water) mountain ranges on one side and by the Robberg Penninsula on the other side. The Robberg Peninsula is an outcrop of land that forms the western boundary of the bay at Plettenberg Bay. This outcrop is about eight kilometres from Plettenberg Bay via road and about five kilometres if you walk along the beach. The Robberg Peninsula has been proclaimed a Nature Reserve and Marine protected area. From the parking area to the southern most point of the reserve is about three kilometres. A hike to the point and back takes about four hours. Robberg dates back to the middle and later stone age. It was first occupied about a 120000 years ago when the sea level dropped. On the peninsula there are several caves where evidence of Stone age occupation has been found. The first modern history was recorded in 1630 when Portuguese sailors were shipwrecked on the beach and lived there for nine months while they built two small boats which they used to get back to Portugal. They were shipwrecked again before they reached Portugal. The rock formations on the peninsula date back a 130 million years to when Gondwanaland broke up to form the continents of South America, Antartica, Africa, India and Australia. There is no human presence on the peninsula save for visitors and nature conservation officials who work there during the day. Robberg is home to the rare blue duiker, a small antelope. It lives in the thickets on the peninsula and it feeds on leaves and vegetation it can find in the area. An adult male measures about 30 centimetres at the shoulder.