HOT, HUMID AND HIPPOS IN TOWN

Staying in St Lucia on the east coast just above Durban. surrounded by huge wetland area of lakes and swamps, and teeming with wildlife and birds. The town consists of a main street with a few restaurants and shops and backed by several streets of houses and places to stay in lush bush. We are still waiting to see the hippos walking in the main street at night, maybe next 2 nights!

We chose our guest house (Parkers) off the internet (this is our room)

highly recommended on Tripadvisor and rightly so, beautiful room and shower, great breakfasts, pool, wifi, beach towels, cool bags for trips to the beach, dining room can be used for takeaways, and amazingly helpful owners. Plus all my laundry done and ironed!

Their main work is organising first time self drive trips across much of Africa (not just SA) and if they pay as much attention to detail as with the guest house, it would be well worth letting them organise your trip. http://www.parkertours.co.za/

We went for a meal one night at the Ocean Buffet, as recommended by Lorraine and Chris, good recommendation, thanks!

The wildlife and birds have been amazing, mostly done on our own with walks and drives out for the day, Graham’s self drive safaris and only £8 for the entry to the Park for a day. Some of the animals include

The hippos are a few feet away from the garden of the restaurant where we were having our pizza.

Today we went on a 3.5 hr walk in the bush on our own (see below) and saw impala, wildebeest, zebra, tortoise, waterbuck, warthogs and more, and plenty of birds, pretty exciting stuff and felt very brave!