Whacky Warren and Frankie2socks get together and discuss St. Lucia Estuary village stuff

Greetings again from Frankie2socks.

I have just moved house and now reside at the BUNDU BASHHER INN , Khula Village, R 618, Mtubatuba, KZN, South Africa 

We have a great office space (Lapa) and a big open (fenced) space at the Southeast corner of Khula Village. The R 618 highway from Ulundi to St. Lucia Estuary village runs along our one fence. The eastern most entrance to Khula Village runs along our eastern fence. We are in Western Shores, with the FukuDuku South zone being across the R 618 highway.  The Bundu Basher Inn is a great place to stay over for a day or two when visiting the iSimangaliso wetland park. 

Our swimming pools is well maintained by #WhackWarren, and has a great LAPA with a bar space and ablution facilities as well as tables and chairs for a small crowd of less than 20  folks.  

Myself (Frankie2socks) and WhackyWarren  will be posting our stories here, then having discussions here, on FB and in the #TwiiterSphere (X) .

Looking forward to your comments and shares.

#Frankie2Socks 

June 23 is a special day !

Greetings again from Frankie2socks 

It is 23 June 2024 today. This day is also the winter solstice in the Southern HemiSphere. 

I have not really been fishing this year, but will be changing that on 23 June 2024 when I hope to catch my first shad of the season, then also something big, by swimming a shad the old way and doing " walk the dog" by following the fish and keeping some kind of near tension on the line. This is not as easy as it sounds, coz there are often other undesirable influences. Things like wind, weed in the water, other folks that were way down there in the distance when you out your live bait in the water.

Live bait often swim hard with the current, making it difficult to keep up and have your line square to the free swimming live bait  at all times, then because the word is out that the shad are in town, there are many folks with bottom baits trying to catch shad in a gully or hole that they have found when walking and looking for a good spot to put a bait. This is why shad fishermen tend to gather in a common spot or close to the same spot every day. If there are rocks, then the spot is fixed, and will work in all weather during shad season.

Now here in St. Lucia village, in KZN, South Africa we have no local rocks, and one must walk about six kilometers north till one reaches where the locals call first Rocks, and back in the late 1980's early 2990's we had a special devious name, "HOTEL FIRST ROCKS" where we used to bring children with to spend the night under the stars on the beach without a tent.... Just you and your blanket and the stars. 

We used to take big chances and light a fire, but it was and still is illegal to start an open fire on the beaches within Umkhanyakude district municipality. This comes from way back when.... When there still was a war time threat of foreign submarines off the St. Lucia beaches all the way to Cape Vidal.

Near mission Rocks , going north towards Cape Vidal on the old (currently in active) walking trail one of the over night slots was called Bartel's Foley, after the captain of a submarine that was bombed by the Catalina Bombers based on Lake St. Lucia. 

This is a really awesome spot, where the "SHIT HOUSE" has one of the best views imaginable. Overlooking the very steep embankment, that has a semi hidden walking train to the beach at the bottom of this rather nasty climb, very steep and rather overgrown .. 

Any way enough for today. But please leave a comment and start a conversation.  The 4u2fish campaign needs your tongue took attack other folks ears and loosen the mental cogs and shafts that need to be turning at the correct speeds.... Public perception Management is a strange issue, where the new SEO (Search Engine Optimization) variables called #SEOVI or Search Engine Optimization Value Indicators are gonna be game changers where #EEAT (Experience, Expertise, Authority and Trust) is the primary issue that will influence SERPs or Search Engine Results Pages. 

Enjoy and remember to smile 

Frankie2Socks 

December 2023 update by Frankie2Socks

Greetings aga

in from Frankie2Socks

It is late December 2023 and there weather, here in St.ucia KZN South Africa, is not playing fair, it is overcaste and threatening to rain, with a very strange wind that is blowing this way and that, then not blowing at all for awhile ,  not a nice pleasant wind at all. 

Last time I  Was at the beach before give bells this morning as usual, and just in time to catch the sunrise, but I did need to wait for the sun to peep through between some clouds, but that was   two days back.

When I last did the mouth walk thing, I walked all the way to the northern edge of the then along the growing point that wants to close the estuary by getting married to the western bank of the St. Lucia / Umfolozi River estuaries,     where the Umfolozi River estuary meets the sea going flow from the other four rivers that flow into the St. Lucia estuary systems.

Very strange things happen here, and these days sea sand is going into the upper edges of Lake St. Lucia's ocean connection. There are  four rivers here

1) Mzenene

2) Nyalazi

3) Mkuze

4) Hluhluwe

And they are all very tiny when compared to the Mighty Umfolozi River... The Mighty Umfolozi River is a very important part of the Zulu culture and mythologies. 

#Mapelane or as loosely translated into English Journeys end or the establishment that accepts your presence at the final destinations of your travels.

Come visit 

visit St. Lucia in North East KZN South Africa

Come visit St. Lucia and discover the many Jews and great tourism attractions in the iSimangaliso Wetland Park. Phone Petrus Viviers or the office staff at #4u2Stay on 0813427371

The 4u2stay team will help your holiday to find you. Tell them what you want to do when visiting St. Lucia. If you are not sure, just ask and the team will jump into a room and prepare an itinery for you. We understand that you have a budget, and want to do as many things S is possible in the short time that you are on leave or on holiday. If you have your own transport and want to do the #SelfDrive thing, that is fine by us, and we will find you the cheapest routes and self drive tracks within the nearby game reserves and the iSimangaliso Wetland Park in North East Zululand, South Africa.

If you wanna go deal sea fishing you can book yourself and pay in advance here  these guys are one of the busier fishing charters in St. Lucia. While you are Staying in the iSimangaliso Wetland Park and surrounding areas think about booking your holiday accomodations with the 4u2Stay team by phoning 0813427371 if out side South Africa change the front zero for +27 meaning you will the dial + (plus)  two Seven eight one three four two Seven three seven one or +27813427371  

Uodate : 27 Jan 2023 St. Lucia estuary

 Greetings to all who read here. It is Saturday 27 Jan 2023 and I am in St. Lucia KZN South Africa. I am busy with the 4u2fish project which has an internet presence  Where 4u2fish is used as a domain name issue as well as a campaign specific hashtag which works together with the #Frankie2Socks HASH TAG  WORKS TOGETHER WITH OTHER ONLINE MARKETING TACTICS.

Yours Truly (Frankie2Socks) was at the beach again this morning, well before the sun stuck its nose over the horizon.  My self and Petrus Bier from s from  Bier pens tv are on the beach every day before sunrise.  This is where Petrus gets his YouTube clips from. if you watch the channel you will hear Petrus mention me every know and then. So just to put all my readers, subscribers, and fans in the right thinking mode, I ask you all to talk about the 4u2fish campaign, and what its impact should be on the DOMESTIC TOURISM MARKET.   this has many sides to the story and, we as the public need to stand up for our rights, the collective community rights and the rights of them creatures who have no voice or say in how mankind is changing the water flow issues and related biodiversity losses within the Greater St. Lucia wetlands Park, which is now managed and governed by the iSimangaliso Wetland Park or the  IWPA 

Our area which has had many names over the years is vastly open spaces that fall into the nature conservation zones, with some human  habitat and agricultural use including commercial forestry, harvesting and resales of natural renewable resources including but not restricted to 

• fish
• prawns
• crabs 
• thatching reads 
• Ncema grass
• Ikhwane  (Bull Rushes) leaves not flowers or seeds
• ILala Palm tree leaves and Njemane beer

So Tourism and fishing-related matters have been the corner stone of the Umkhanyakude district municipality for many years. In the years before the 4X4 Ban fishing was really active hear in St. Lucia and at one stage there were many fishing tackle outlets and both the Dolphin supermarket and Spar (St. Lucia)  The 4x4ban closed many tourism businesses here along the Elephant Coast.  This blog supports and gets a commission on any sales through the HEJJU sub pages at frankie2socks.hejju.com and we will be actively promoting these pages and our related online marketing assets like  facebook.com/4u2fish 

the biggest issue for us at the 4u2fish management team is the fact that tourism associated with fishing is being ignored by the St. Lucia Torusim folks, and this needs to change and change rather seriously, coz the lake systems are TOTALLY FUCKED... EFF You SEE KAY EEE DEEEE all in capital letters and Underlined in RED     so we gotta get the lake and estuary system dunctiional again, and do theis soon.  tourism numbers are qdwindling and we gotta do some thinng to save jobs, and bring others back into existand. take a #PeepSee her and help us by taking a break, and booking through the platform found here  

the IWPA will soon be starting their Public Participation process and to stay abreast of these issues see our FB PAGE at feacebook.com/4u2fish

Online tourism bookings issues

This blog will focus on tour is bookings through the hejju.com platform.

Frankie2Socks and associated partners will be promoting these pages at many different levels through a wide platform base that includes all social media platforms and then some not so public places. 

The base web  site https://Frankie2Socks.hejju.com is a commission based  tourism marketing platform that focuses on South African tourism destinations and products to appreciate at specific locations.

Take a #PeepSee 

 

 Greetings and thanx to all who read here from  #Frankie2Socks. 

online marketing and generating sales within the online space is a really tough nut to crack. 

T

https://www.hejju.com/ have a solution that can be very helpful. 

I use the other edge of this great tourism marketing platform at frankie2Socks.hejju.com 

the pages are responsive and open up all the way to a bookings platform where the prospective tourist (YOU)  may make bookings and complete payments online.  This makes online marketing of these listed tourism products an awful lot easier.   you can just open the link and fill out the bookings form

These guys at Hay You   (Hejju) have really been helpful and now it is simple and easy to send a complete itinerary for an individual so that things may be arranged in advance. use the search boxes in these page  to find the activities or other travel products that you are looking for.

try this page to take a #PeepSee at the search results for KZN https://frankie2socks.hejju.com/search?query=KZN

Each post in this blog will focus on a specific listed tourism product and answer questions asked by visitors to the St. Lucia area which I bump into on the street in St. Lucia or at the beach or St. Lucia Estuary Mouth.

Let me know where in South Africa you want to experience a tourism-based activity and I will see what can be arranged for you. fill in this form or send me an email