St. Lucia Estuary in North East KZN South Africa is an interesting destination.

 St. Lucia KZN South Africa is an interesting place with lots to do and plenty to see.  Check out these options 

The early morning beach walks that I take with Petrus Viviers and his dog , a bitch called Parrdette  always surprises me with Beautiful sunrises and strange stuff washed up during the night. 

The blue cheeked bee eaters are getting ready to leave for warmer areas, and the yellow billed kites have already left for the winter. 

The St. Lucia estuary mouth area is a rather hot birding spot and the African Skimmers  seem to have left ..  a few weeks back we also had a crab plover,...

During recent weeks there has also been a #PalmNutVulture hanging around that has zupprised a few folks with rather pleasant poses on the northern bank of the open mouth. 

At spring tide low water there are also many gulls, turns and plovers on the Southern banks of the estuary with Mapelane in the back ground. 

 Fanas tours  which runs the Fannas boat offering special boat trips to view bippos crocks and birding  offers interesting options to enjoy the wild life along the St. Lucia estuary banks 

 

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Fanas early morning birding trip #12March2023

Greetings to all who read here.

Earlier today, Sunday 12 March 2023 I was fortunate enough to experience a truly awesome boat trip on the St Lucia estuary with friends and visitors to the area.

 The captain of the boat, Shaun, who is a long time friend of mine acted as the your guide on this truly awesome birding excursion.

We departed from #SunSetJety St six bells sharp, and traveled South to the St. Lucia Estuary Mouth, then further South past Mapelane, along the Umzunduze river which is a tributary of the Umfilozi river. 

The Reeds along the river which are an ecological problem had a supprizing number of birds, and we all took many pics. Some more than others. I am not really a super keen birder, so I spent most of the time chatting to the other folks on board FANAS as we slowly powered along the estuary, past the mouth area, up steam leaving Mapelane Sand dune far behind us.

Mapelane is a rather talk vegitayed sand dune which is a local historical land mark that gets its name from Zulu History. Loosely translated from Zulu to English Mapelane means "Journeys end" or the end destination of a travel quest.

Mapelane is also marketed as the second tallest vegitated sand dune in Africa. 

My Friend Petrus Viviers did a live YouTube  video of this very beautiful and informative birding excursion. 

We saw many different birds including the #AfricanSkimmers and giant heron . Really awesome trip thanx to  trip. https://www.facebook.com/FannasHippoCrocTours/