Just south of Mtubatuba and St Lucia lies Richards Bay, the deepest natural harbour of Africa. Stefaan had read something about a Pelican Island so… off we went. We put it into the GPS and eventually arrived at a very narrow, dented and uneven pier-like road, with sloping breaker rocks and then sea on both …
KZN North Coast Part four: Richards Bay to Durban May 2021 Read More »
Our trip from Sodwana to St lucia took us via Hluhluwe, where we made a quick stop to do some shopping. As we packed everything away in the truck and were preparing to get on the road again we saw an iconic ‘mielie lady’ walking past our truck. Anyone in South Africa knows the Madam …
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When we left the Kosi Bay Lake system we drove to Mabibi Beach Camp: a very nice drive through the iSimangaliso coastal reserve. The first part took us through great expanses of forest plantations but the last part was coastal forest again, which implies shorter trees and bushes encroaching on the narrow, sandy road. With …
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A few years ago we had done a weekend road trip to Kosi Bay and we liked it so much it had been on our bucket list to do with Trokkie. Leaving the endless pine and eucalyptus forests of Mpumalanga behind and skirting Swaziland on the south side, we soon enough hit the sugar cane …
Another day during our 2020 Perth family visit we went discovering on our own and took a ride to the coastal town Fremantle – or Freo as the locals love to call their town. After parking the car, we strolled to what we presumed to be the city centre in search of the tourist info …
From the onset of our 2019-2020 holiday in Oz, we knew that Peter and Jacinta and baby Louis wanted to go to Noosa in Queensland for a Christmas Holiday break with family at the East Coast. Although originally planned to leave just after Christmas, P & J decided (while we were still traveling back from …
Another trip to Durban, saw us going north for two specific destinations: the fish traps of Kosi Bay – almost on the border with Mozambique – and the hippo paradise of the St Lucia Wetlands. Day 1 Kosi Bay has been on our bucket list for a long time as we are intrigued by the …
Two of our three children live in Australia, so we’ve been to the Land Down Under a few times so far. On our 2018 visit we decided get a first taste of the east coast. Seeing we knew someone in Noosa, we made that our starting point. We planned a road trip from Noosa back …
Although we have lived in South Africa almost 40 years, we have never had the opportunity to go to Namibia … until now. Our best friends were spending time in Walvis Bay, so … catching a plane to Walvis was the name of the game. Coming in with a fairly small plane the first impression …