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Mossel Bay is a city in South Africa, in the Western Cape province. Port center, overlooking the Indian Ocean in a bay east of the Cape of Good Hope and west of Humansdorp. The name comes from the old Dutch Mosselbaai, in Italian Bay of the mussels, due to the abundance of such seafood on the underwater rocks of the bay. Mossel Bay is located halfway between Cape Town and Port Elizabeth. It is considered the most important city on the Garden Route, the road that runs along the southern coast of South Africa. The Guinness Book of World Records makes the city as the place with the mildest climate in the world after Hawaii. The coast of the Mossel Bay area is one of the most suitable areas in South Africa (and the world) for practicing cetacean observation; whales of different species come to the coast to breastfeed their young from June to November. Many other marine species can be observed near the bay; among others, some species of sea lions, dolphins, sharks and penguins. The bay is located in the floral kingdom of the Cape, a floristic ecoregion where a large number of endemic plant species are found. The most common type of vegetation is what is called fynbos.
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