徒步南非之花园大道 The Garden Route—9

 -If you look carefully, you can see there are stone artifacts. This black marterial here is a burnt material. So that's an ancient fireplace.-So that would have been for cooking.

-For cooking the shellfish and so on. We find animal bones, etc, in here, and at the very base of this deposit, we have dated this to 164,000 years ago. So that's actually that early evidence for marine¹ adaptation.

-So we are sitting where modern-day men first sat. This surely is just the discovery of a lifetime.

-Everyone alive on the planet is descended² from approximately 600 people. The question then becomes where was that progenitor³ population. If we've contributed to answering that question, then we've contributed to answering one of the biggest questions of all time, and that's extremely exciting.

 

 

Pinnacle⁴ Point is a shining example of balancing act currently going on along the Garden Route. As you walk across the golf course, there is a bizzare mix of modern man, natural beauty and ancient history, all competing for space and attention. As Day One of my walk draws to a close, the cliffs begin to shrink. And the sun sets as I approach to the rooftops of Dana Bay. But down at water level, it's time for one extra and certainly unplanned meeting.

 

 

-You can't not smile on like that!

The southern right whale, a regular and very welcome visitor to this shore. Between July and October each year, they come to swallow waters along this southern coastline, attracting friends and fans wherever they appear. Playful and communicative, they arrive each year, not normally alone but in pairs. They come to mate and calve, yet another wonderous life form attracted to this rich coastline. 

1 marine   

adj.海的；海生的；航海的；海事的；n.水兵

参考例句：

• Marine creatures are those which live in the sea. 海洋生物是生存在海里的生物。
• When the war broke out,he volunteered for the Marine Corps.战争爆发时，他自愿参加了海军陆战队。

2 descended   

a.为...后裔的，出身于...的

参考例句：

• A mood of melancholy descended on us. 一种悲伤的情绪袭上我们的心头。
• The path descended the hill in a series of zigzags. 小路呈连续的之字形顺着山坡蜿蜒而下。

3 progenitor   

n.祖先，先驱

参考例句：

• He was also a progenitor of seven presidents of Nicaragua.他也是尼加拉瓜7任总统的祖先。
• Schoenberg was a progenitor of modern music.勋伯格是一位现代音乐的先驱。

4 pinnacle   

n.尖塔，尖顶，山峰；(喻)顶峰

参考例句：

• Now he is at the very pinnacle of his career.现在他正值事业中的顶峰时期。
• It represents the pinnacle of intellectual capability.它代表了智能的顶峰。