Agulhas National Park - 45 km from Gansbaai
The Agulhas National Park was established only a few years ago to consolidate a core area of lowland fynbos and specifically lowland fynbos on limestone soils. This limestone soil fynbos vegetation type is mainly restricted to the Southern Overberg and is considered endangered. From a small piece of land around Cape Agulhas a few years ago, the park has now expanded and has crossed the borders of the Danger Point Peninsula area with the purchase of the lands of the historical and grand farmstead of Ratel River.

The Agulhas National Park is expected to open for the public in 2007; priority is however given to the conservation of critical tracts of land and the re-introduction of animal species that were common in the area before the arrival of European settlers. In 2008, a little over hundred years after the last Hippopotamus of the Western Cape was shot at Seekoeivlei (Hippopotamus-swamp), the first Hippopotamus will be re-introduced at Seekloeivlei. In the years to come other species, once common on the plains between Gansbaai and Cape Agulhas (what once was "The Serengeti of the Western Cape") will be released including the re-bred Guagga and Cape lion (both species were once extinct, but after some clever breeding by man apparently no longer).

The Agulhas Natonal Park is at the core of the Agulhas Biodiversity Inititiative (ABI). ABI's intention is to include -through private-public partnership- numerous privately owned farms and reserves to create a mega-reserve of heartlands, corridors and refugias next to working farms and settlements. At the end of the line of a very ambitious program is the game-fence that should stretch from Stanford to De Hoop. The whole of the Southern-most landmass of Africa will in this manner become a natural area again, in which the human settlements and working farms will be fenced in and the bulk of the land will be given to animals to roam free in a landscape of pristine indigenous nature.

Apart from wildlife, the Agulhas National Park is rich in cultural heritage. A group of ancient fully intact fishtraps can be found in the reserve around Rasperpunt. These fishtraps were ingeniously made by Khoisan by packing stone in the flood-line of the ocean. Many of the original farmers kept meticulous diaries (this is why we know the exact date when the last Hippopotamus was shot) and there is a charming collection of old artifacts including the skull of a black rhino. The lighthouse at Cape Agulhas is the second oldest working lighthouse in South Africa and a national monument.