KwaZulu Natal

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After diving we got away from the bad weather and escaped to the lovely St Lucia. This is a huge UNESCO wetlands site, which is unfortunately suffering from a drought, so our first stop at False Bay was a bit disappointing as it was mud as far as we could see. We were advised to go to the town of St Lucia and were rewarded by a small, tourist-friendly town. We booked into a great chalet looking over the estuary and went on a river cruise, on which we saw loads of hippos, crocs and birds, including the impressive Goliath Heron. We had dinner (I had a crocodile pizza), and then early the next morning we drove towards Dundee and the battlefields. We spent a day and a half looking at the fields where the British fought the Zulus and then the Boers, spending a night in Ladysmith, eating a fabulous braai. After visiting Speionkop we drove on to White Mountain Lodge for the night before visiting the beautiful Giant's Castle Reserve in the Drakensburg Mountains. There is a famous San Rock Art site there which we saw on a tour with a very entertaining guide. The thunderstorms rolled in just as we finished our hike and we watched lighting strike and heard the thunder crash around us as we drove through the Valley of 10,000 Hills towards Pietermaritzburg. We then went to the coast to stay for the night on Umdlotti beach before we drove down the coast (via Margate and Ramsgate) to Leisure Bay to meet up with Anna and Greg for the night. E