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Pachypodium saundersii, the kudu lily, is a succulent plant of the family Apocynaceae. It was named in honour of Sir Charles James Renault Saunders (1857–1931), the Natal Province civil servant and casual plant collector.
It is found naturally in Southern Africa, on the Lebombo Mountains and other areas in KwaZulu-Natal, Mpumalanga and Eswatini (Swaziland).
It is usually a small, shrubby bush, but can grow up to 1.5m tall. The plant is covered in paired, sharp thorns, and dark green shiny leaves, and it flowers annually producing masses of white flowers that have a pinkish/purplish tinge to them.
Wild South Africa
Kruger National Park
Young elephants playing in the wetlands formed by the Nshawu drainage line, a favorite venue of elephants. To the west, across the Lebombo mountains, lies Mozambique and almost certain death. On this side of the mountain range they enjoy freedom and the relative safety provided by the Kruger National Park.
Wild South Africa
Kruger National Park
Photographed near the wetlands at the western foot hills of the Lebombo mountains. The Lebombo mountain range forms the border between South Africa and Mozambique.
Pachypodium saundersii, the kudu lily, is a succulent plant of the family Apocynaceae. It was named in honour of Sir Charles James Renault Saunders (1857–1931), the Natal Province civil servant and casual plant collector.
It is found naturally in Southern Africa, on the Lebombo Mountains and other areas in KwaZulu-Natal, Mpumalanga and Eswatini (Swaziland).
It is usually a small, shrubby bush, but can grow up to 1.5m tall. The plant is covered in paired, sharp thorns, and dark green shiny leaves, and it flowers annually producing masses of white flowers that have a pinkish/purplish tinge to them.
Wild South Africa
Kruger National Park
Only 24 meters away this elephant was hardly visible among the dry scrub Mopane. Sighted in the North Eastern section of the reserve very close to the Mozambican border and in the vicinity of a pass that cuts through the Lebombo mountains. This pass is believed to be an ancient elephant highway used by elephants migrating from Mozambique to their winter feeding grounds in Northern Kruger.
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Wild South Africa
Kruger National Park
The Lebombo mountains seen in the background form the north-eastern border between the Republic of South Africa and Mozambique.
View from a cliff above the southern shore of the Olifants River. Here you can see one of the most beautiful areas of the Kruger NP with a magnificent view of the vast savannah landscape up to the Lebombo mountains. Many animals, such as elephants and hippopotamuses live here on the 100 m lower river.
I'll make this quick this morning, but you already got to see Patch. I've wanted to post this Aloe for months, but never got around to it. The way this particular one was growing, i.e., "conical but without a pointy head," I thought that it was certainly a Banksia. Come to find out it is a Aloe spicata, an aloe not of great interest to Wikipedia or Google.
Here's what I know: This should confuse, but I have a hunch it's African rather than Australian in origin. Common names: "Lebombo aloe, bottle-brush aloe, Gazaland aloe (Eng.); lebombo-aalwyn (Afr.); inhlaba (isiZulu), tshikhopa (Tshivenda).
They can tolerate long periods of drought, but still thrive and flower beautifully which is why there six in the center of Ruth Bancroft Garden. "Aloe spicata is single- or multi-stemmed and grows up to 6.5 feet tall, with about 30 leaves in a dense rosette. The leaves are 600–800 mm long, spreading to slightly recurved, channelled, with small firm teeth along margins, and are bright green, often flushed with reddish green colour." Obviously not written in the U.S. - too coloUrful and not one in 100 of us can tell you what 600-800mm is in inches or feet. We ony use mm for photography: I once had a friend (yes, I've lost a few, and I know how careless that was of me) who said that mm could be translated into price of cameras and lenses. Otherwise, you take 35mm film and that means that 35mm equals about an inch.
I'm not proud of my ignorance, but I am a little dismayed by everyone else's! (Need emoji: send quickly)
"The inflorescence is a densely flowered, erect raceme, 500 mm to 1.2 m long and less than 50 mm in diameter, with a bottle-brush appearance." Inflorescence is the "stem" that flowers pop out of, and I don't think it's at all bottle-brush in appearance. Does this even look like a brush to you ... let alone a bottle?
Ah, from another article ... yes, it appears to be from Africa, and this is your opportunity to bone up on geography. If you're under 30 and were educated in a California school, you're in luck. They haven't taught world geography since 1990 so you won't be confused by name changes. I once said, what do I need to know about a place I'll never go to? Most of the time I was right, so I continued that argument to the metric system. Right again. For those of your who never been right twice in your lives ... don't go to Vegas!
Wild South Africa
Kruger National Park
A few weeks ago the Letaba river was for all practical purposes bone dry. This photo was taken on 14 February, just north of Letaba Rest Camp, showing the effect of the good rains we had recently.
The Letaba is one of the most important tributaries of the Olifants River, which it joins in the foothills of the Lebombo Mountains, near South Africa's border with Mozambique. In Mozambique the latter river is called the Rio Elefantes.
In the bottom left corner you will notice a juvenile crocodile sneaking up on a heron.
ZS-BMH : Douglas DC-4 : South African Airways : "Lebombo"
The SAA Historic Flight's immaculate DC-4 flew a number of pleasure flights on the arrivals days prior to RIAT.
It was a bit hazy and probably not the right time of day, the sun was getting low .... but I accompanied seven other people without cameras. :-)
God’s Window is one of the Blyde River Canyon Nature Reserve’s spectacular viewpoints. At God’s Window, majestic cliffs plunge down 700m and, on a clear day, you'll be able to see over the famous Kruger National Park towards the Lebombo Mountains on South Africa’s border with Mozambique.
Staring out over the plains near the S37 road that runs from the Sweni Bird Hide alongside the Lebombo border with Mozambique.
Kruger National Park
Ok, just one more of the fabulous trip to Zimanga in South Africa last september. It isn't often that I come home with so many pictures that I like, but this trip certainly delivered!
We had been in the Lagoon hide all afternoon. Photographed beautiful birds up close and playing elephants in the distance and had a great time. There's hardly a second going by there without something happening.
All of a sudden a small family of Warthogs came happily trotting in. They drank a little and started frolicking around, seemingly without a care in the world.
Although these African piggies usually don't make for the most adorable pictures my heart skipped a beat when mom and baby struck this lovely pose, all the more because the beautiful Lebombo mountain range made for such a stunning backdrop.
Have a lovely sunny weekend everyone!!
Canon EOS 1D X mark II
Canon EF70-200mm f/2.8L IS II USM at 142mm
ISO 800, f3.5, 1/640s, exp. comp. +1
Photo by Charlotte Blanchet – Lotus Blanc
Photo by Charlotte Blanchet – Lotus Blanc
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• Country : ZS- | South Africa
• Date : 1934 -
• Codes : SA SAA
• Callsign : Springbok
• Web site : www.flysaa.com
@ BOEING 🇺🇸 747 - 200 • ZS-SAN "Lebombo"
• Built : Everett (PAE) WA - USA
• Serial number : msn 20239 / 160
• Type : 747-244B
• First flight date : 30/09/1971
• Test registration
• Seat configurationSeat
• Engines : 4 x PW JT9D-7RG2 (5x on pic)
• NB : When SAA took delivery of its 1st B747 ZS-SAN in 1971, there were no spare engines in South Africa for this new aircraft, it was decided to deliver the aircraft, including a 5th engine fitted directly from factory - as represented on the picture.
@ OPERATORS OF THE AIRCRAFT :
• 22/10/1971 : South African Airways - ZS-SAn "Lebombo"
• 05/03/2004 : Preserved at JNB Rand Airport at the South African Airways Museum
Wild South Africa
Kruger National Park
Grasland plains along the Nshawu watercourse near the Tropic of Capricorn. In the far distance is the Lebombo mountain range, forming the border between South Africa and Mozambique.
Lepelle / Olifants river
Kruger National Park is one of the largest game reserves in Africa. It covers an area of 19,485 km2 (7,523 sq mi) in the provinces of Limpopo and Mpumalanga in northeastern South Africa, and extends 360 km (220 mi) from north to south and 65 km (40 mi) from east to west. The administrative headquarters are in Skukuza. Areas of the park were first protected by the government of the South African Republic in 1898, and it became South Africa's first national park in 1926.
To the west and south of the Kruger National Park are the two South African provinces of Limpopo and Mpumalanga. In the north is Zimbabwe, and to the east is Mozambique. It is now part of the Great Limpopo Transfrontier Park, a peace park that links Kruger National Park with the Gonarezhou National Park in Zimbabwe, and with the Limpopo National Park in Mozambique.
The park is part of the Kruger to Canyons Biosphere an area designated by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) as an International Man and Biosphere Reserve (the "Biosphere").
The park has nine main gates allowing entrance to the different camps.
(Wikipedia)
The Olifants River, Lepelle or Obalule (Afrikaans: Olifantsrivier; Portuguese: Rio dos Elefantes) is a river in South Africa and Mozambique, a tributary of the Limpopo River. It falls into the Drainage Area B of the Drainage basins of South Africa. The historical area of the Pedi people, Sekhukhuneland, is located between the Olifants River and one of its largest tributaries, the Steelpoort River.
The Olifants River has its origin between Breyten and Bethal, Mpumalanga Province. It flows north towards Limpopo Province through Witbank Dam and then the Loskop Dam and is forced east by the Transvaal Drakensberg, cutting through at the Abel Erasmus Pass and then flowing east further across the Lowveld to join with the Letaba River. It crosses into Gaza Province, Mozambique, after cutting through the Lebombo Mountains by way of the Olifants Gorge, becoming the Rio dos Elefantes, and finally joining the Limpopo River after 40 km before it enters the Indian Ocean at Xai-Xai north of Maputo.
Overgrazing in sections of its middle course result in the river carrying away eroded soil after heavy rains. The Olifants river has become one of the most heavily polluted rivers in South Africa, not by human or industrial waste, but by thriving green algae.
The Olifants River's largest tributaries are the Letaba River and the Steelpoort River known as Tubatse River. Other tributaries are the Tongwane, Blyde, Moses, Spekboom, Timbavati, Nkumpi, Ga-Selati, Klaserie, Makhutswi, Mohlapitse River, Lepellane River, Mohwetse River and Ngwaritsi River. Some tributaries, notably the Klein Olifants River (origin near Hendrina, joins the Olifants River downstream of the Middelburg Dam), the Elands, Wilge and the Bronkhorstspruit, rise in the Highveld grasslands. The Shingwedzi River flows close to the northeastern side of the Massingir Dam reservoir and joins the left bank of the Olifants about 12 km downstream from the dam wall.
Thirty large dams in the Olifants River Catchment include the following:
South Africa
Witbank Dam
Rhenosterkop Dam, on the Elands River
Rust de Winter Dam
Blyderivierpoort Dam
Loskop Dam
Middelburg Dam, on the Klein Olifants River
Ohrigstad Dam
De Hoop Dam
Flag Boshielo Dam
Phalaborwa Barrage
Mozambique
Massingir Dam
(Wikipedia)
Der Kruger-Nationalpark (deutsch häufig falsch Krüger-Nationalpark) ist das größte Wildschutzgebiet Südafrikas. Er liegt im Nordosten des Landes in der Landschaft des Lowveld auf dem Gebiet der Provinz Limpopo sowie des östlichen Abschnitts von Mpumalanga. Seine Fläche erstreckt sich vom Crocodile-River im Süden bis zum Limpopo, dem Grenzfluss zu Simbabwe, im Norden. Die Nord-Süd-Ausdehnung beträgt etwa 350 km, in Ost-West-Richtung ist der Park durchschnittlich 54 km breit und umfasst eine Fläche von rund 20.000 Quadratkilometern. Damit gehört er zu den größten Nationalparks in Afrika.
Das Schutzgebiet wurde am 26. März 1898 unter dem Präsidenten Paul Kruger als Sabie Game Reserve zum Schutz der Wildnis gegründet. 1926 erhielt das Gebiet den Status Nationalpark und wurde in seinen heutigen Namen umbenannt. Im Park leben 147 Säugetierarten inklusive der „Big Five“, außerdem etwa 507 Vogelarten und 114 Reptilienarten, 49 Fischarten und 34 Amphibienarten.
(Wikipedia)
Der Lepelle (bis 2005 Olifants River oder Olifantsrivier) ist ein Fluss, der in der südafrikanischen Provinz Mpumalanga entspringt.
Er fließt nördlich durch den Witbank Dam und den Loskop Dam. In Transvaal zwingen ihn die Transvaal-Drakensberge Richtung Osten; er durchschneidet den Abel-Erasmus-Pass, fließt ostwärts und vereinigt sich mit dem Letaba. Beim Überschreiten der Grenze nach Mosambik ändert er seinen Namen in Rio dos Elefantes und mündet in den Limpopo, welcher noch den Rio Changane aufnimmt, bevor er bei Xai-Xai nördlich von Maputo in den Indischen Ozean mündet.
(Wikipedia)
Wild South Africa
Kruger National Park
Grasland plains along the Nshawu watercourse near the Tropic of Capricorn. In the far distance is the Lebombo mountain range, forming the border between South Africa and Mozambique.
Photo by Charlotte Blanchet – Lotus Blanc
God’s Window is a popular vantage point along the Drakensberg escarpment in Mpumalanga, South Africa. It is situated at the southern extremity of the Blyde River Canyon Nature Reserve.
At God’s Window, majestic cliffs plunge over 700 meters to the Lowveld and the game reserves which have made the area one of Africa’s prime wildlife destinations. From this Escarpment—a 250 km long rampart of sheer cliffs—opens a vista into a lush forest, the Eden-like aesthetic appearance of which prompted the name. On a clear day it is possible to see over the Kruger National Park towards the Lebombo Mountains on the border with Mozambique.
Photo by Charlotte Blanchet – Lotus Blanc
Photo by Charlotte Blanchet – Lotus Blanc
Happy Friday from Kruger National Park/ Marloth Park in South Africa. I was SO-oooo excited to capture this bird.... This is a "Collared Sunbird" - this is South Africa's closest resemblance to the Hummingbird!! They are shy...and FAST!! I was at the right place at the right time! Yeeeeehaw!!!! Hope you like it too!
I'm out in South Africa again moving Mom and Dad into Assisted Living.... I've not had much free internet so I've not been on Flickr very much.... I've been gone from home 3 out of the last 6 months. I miss you all and your wonderful images...
Thanks for looking :))
Typical smokey start up at Rand SA 21st September 2014. The last DC-4 built (1947) Shot taken from the balcony of The Dakota Lodge.
Photo by Charlotte Blanchet – Lotus Blanc
Kudy Lily aka Star of Lundi.
Pachypodium saundesii.
Fam.: Apocynaceae.
Native to Southern Africa. (Lebombo Moutains, KwaZulu-Natal, Mpumalanga and Swaziland.)
1-27.01.1994
Wild South Africa
Kruger National Park
Only 24 meters away this elephant was hardly visible among the dry scrub Mopane. Sighted in the North Eastern section of the reserve very close to the Mozambican border and in the vicinity of a pass that cuts through the Lebombo mountains. This pass is believed to be an ancient elephant highway used by elephants migrating from Mozambique to their winter feeding grounds in Northern Kruger.
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Photo by Charlotte Blanchet – Lotus Blanc
St Lucia Estuary
St Lucia is a settlement in Umkhanyakude District Municipality in the KwaZulu-Natal province of South Africa. The small town is mainly a hub for the Greater St Lucia Wetlands Park.
Evidence of early humans living in the caves up high in the Lebombo mountains dating back 130,000 years ago provided scientists with clues regarding the lifestyle of these prehistoric settlers. From this cave alone some 69,000 stone implements and various human remains have been recovered. Some of these tools date back to the middle and early stone ages (130,000 to 30,000 years ago).
St. Lucia was first named in 1554 as Rio dos Medos do Ouro (alternatively Rio dos Médãos do Ouro — River of the Gold Dunes) by the survivors of the Portuguese ship São Bento. At this stage, only the Tugela River mouth was known as St. Lucia. Later, in 1575, the Tugela River was named Tugela. On 13 December 1575, the day of the feast of Saint Lucy, Manuel Peresterello renamed the mouth area to Santa Lucia.
In 1822, St. Lucia was proclaimed by the British as a township. In 1895, St. Lucia Game Reserve, 30 km north of the town, was proclaimed. Since 1971, St. Lucia Lake and the turtle beaches and coral reefs of Maputaland have been listed by the Convention on Wetlands of International Importance (Ramsar Convention). In December 1999, the park was declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
The park is also home to about 1,200 Nile Crocodiles and almost 800 hippopotamuses.
Other animals include leopards, Greater Kudu, Black Rhinos, rich avifauna and numerous invertebrates.
Under Köppen-Geiger climate classification system, it has a humid subtropical climate (Cfa).
(Wikipedia)
St Lucia ist ein Ort im Distrikt uMkhanyakude, östlich des Verwaltungssitzes Mtubatuba der gleichnamigen Gemeinde in der Provinz KwaZulu-Natal von Südafrika. Die Kleinstadt ist ein beliebter Ausgangspunkt für touristische Touren im iSimangaliso-Wetland-Park (ehemals Greater St Lucia Wetlands Park). 2011 hatte die Stadt 1104 Einwohner.
St Lucia liegt an der Mündung der Lagune des St.-Lucia-See auf einer schmalen Landzunge, begrenzt durch das St. Lucia Estuary im Westen und den Indischen Ozean im Osten. Der Ort liegt etwa 240 km nördlich von Durban. Die Straßen sind schachbrettförmig angelegt, die Hauptstraße ist die Mackenzie Street, wo sich die meisten Geschäfte und Tourismus-Dienstleister befinden. Zahlreiche Bootsanleger ermöglichen den Tourveranstaltern Ausflüge in die St. Lucia-Lagune und aufs Meer an der Elephant Coast. Weiter im Inland befindet sich das Dorf Khula Village und im Süden schließt sich das Siedlungsgebiet von Mapelana (Maohelane) an. Der iSimangaliso Wetland Park erstreckt sich vom Ort aus noch ca. 10 km weiter nach Süden und ca. 60 km weit nach Norden an der Küste, die hier stark durch Feuchtgebiete gegliedert ist, allen voran die Lagune des Lake St. Lucia, die sich von St Lucia über ca. 30 km nach Norden erstreckt. Im Park befinden sich die höchsten bewachsenen Sanddünen der Welt und als Sehenswürdigkeit auch das Cape Vidal Lighthouse.
Im Ort starten zahlreiche Wanderrouten wie iGwalagwala Trail, Emoyeni Trail (63 km), Mziki Trail (40 km).
Etwa 20 km südlich des Ortes liegt das Cape St Lucia mit dem Cape St Lucia Lighthouse St. Lucia wurde zuerst 1554 als portugiesisch Rio dos Medos do Ouro (Rio dos Médãos do Ouro, dt. Fluss der Goldenen Dünen) benannt Damals landeten Überlebende des portugiesischen Schiffs São Bento dort an. Zu dieser Zeit hatte nur die Mündung des Tugela River den Namen St. Lucia erhalten. Später, 1575, erhielt der Fluss seinen heutigen Namen. Am 13. Dezember 1575, dem Fest der Heiligen Lucia, benannte Manuel Peresterello das Gebiet um in „Santa Lucia“.
1822 wurde St. Lucia von den Briten als Township institutionalisiert. 1895 wurde 30 km nördlich des Ortes das St. Lucia Game Reserve (Jagdreservat) gegründet. im Gebiet von KwaMbonambi.
Nach der Köppen-Geiger-Klima-Klassifikation ist das Klima in St Lucia ein humid subtropisches Klima (Ostseitenklima, Cfa).
(Wikipedia)
Main Beach
St Lucia is a settlement in Umkhanyakude District Municipality in the KwaZulu-Natal province of South Africa. The small town is mainly a hub for the Greater St Lucia Wetlands Park.
Evidence of early humans living in the caves up high in the Lebombo mountains dating back 130,000 years ago provided scientists with clues regarding the lifestyle of these prehistoric settlers. From this cave alone some 69,000 stone implements and various human remains have been recovered. Some of these tools date back to the middle and early stone ages (130,000 to 30,000 years ago).
St. Lucia was first named in 1554 as Rio dos Medos do Ouro (alternatively Rio dos Médãos do Ouro — River of the Gold Dunes) by the survivors of the Portuguese ship São Bento. At this stage, only the Tugela River mouth was known as St. Lucia. Later, in 1575, the Tugela River was named Tugela. On 13 December 1575, the day of the feast of Saint Lucy, Manuel Peresterello renamed the mouth area to Santa Lucia.
In 1822, St. Lucia was proclaimed by the British as a township. In 1895, St. Lucia Game Reserve, 30 km north of the town, was proclaimed. Since 1971, St. Lucia Lake and the turtle beaches and coral reefs of Maputaland have been listed by the Convention on Wetlands of International Importance (Ramsar Convention). In December 1999, the park was declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
The park is also home to about 1,200 Nile Crocodiles and almost 800 hippopotamuses.
Other animals include leopards, Greater Kudu, Black Rhinos, rich avifauna and numerous invertebrates.
Under Köppen-Geiger climate classification system, it has a humid subtropical climate (Cfa).
(Wikipedia)
St Lucia ist ein Ort im Distrikt uMkhanyakude, östlich des Verwaltungssitzes Mtubatuba der gleichnamigen Gemeinde in der Provinz KwaZulu-Natal von Südafrika. Die Kleinstadt ist ein beliebter Ausgangspunkt für touristische Touren im iSimangaliso-Wetland-Park (ehemals Greater St Lucia Wetlands Park). 2011 hatte die Stadt 1104 Einwohner.
St Lucia liegt an der Mündung der Lagune des St.-Lucia-See auf einer schmalen Landzunge, begrenzt durch das St. Lucia Estuary im Westen und den Indischen Ozean im Osten. Der Ort liegt etwa 240 km nördlich von Durban. Die Straßen sind schachbrettförmig angelegt, die Hauptstraße ist die Mackenzie Street, wo sich die meisten Geschäfte und Tourismus-Dienstleister befinden. Zahlreiche Bootsanleger ermöglichen den Tourveranstaltern Ausflüge in die St. Lucia-Lagune und aufs Meer an der Elephant Coast. Weiter im Inland befindet sich das Dorf Khula Village und im Süden schließt sich das Siedlungsgebiet von Mapelana (Maohelane) an. Der iSimangaliso Wetland Park erstreckt sich vom Ort aus noch ca. 10 km weiter nach Süden und ca. 60 km weit nach Norden an der Küste, die hier stark durch Feuchtgebiete gegliedert ist, allen voran die Lagune des Lake St. Lucia, die sich von St Lucia über ca. 30 km nach Norden erstreckt. Im Park befinden sich die höchsten bewachsenen Sanddünen der Welt und als Sehenswürdigkeit auch das Cape Vidal Lighthouse.
Im Ort starten zahlreiche Wanderrouten wie iGwalagwala Trail, Emoyeni Trail (63 km), Mziki Trail (40 km).
Etwa 20 km südlich des Ortes liegt das Cape St Lucia mit dem Cape St Lucia Lighthouse St. Lucia wurde zuerst 1554 als portugiesisch Rio dos Medos do Ouro (Rio dos Médãos do Ouro, dt. Fluss der Goldenen Dünen) benannt Damals landeten Überlebende des portugiesischen Schiffs São Bento dort an. Zu dieser Zeit hatte nur die Mündung des Tugela River den Namen St. Lucia erhalten. Später, 1575, erhielt der Fluss seinen heutigen Namen. Am 13. Dezember 1575, dem Fest der Heiligen Lucia, benannte Manuel Peresterello das Gebiet um in „Santa Lucia“.
1822 wurde St. Lucia von den Briten als Township institutionalisiert. 1895 wurde 30 km nördlich des Ortes das St. Lucia Game Reserve (Jagdreservat) gegründet. im Gebiet von KwaMbonambi.
Nach der Köppen-Geiger-Klima-Klassifikation ist das Klima in St Lucia ein humid subtropisches Klima (Ostseitenklima, Cfa).
(Wikipedia)
Main Beach
St Lucia is a settlement in Umkhanyakude District Municipality in the KwaZulu-Natal province of South Africa. The small town is mainly a hub for the Greater St Lucia Wetlands Park.
Evidence of early humans living in the caves up high in the Lebombo mountains dating back 130,000 years ago provided scientists with clues regarding the lifestyle of these prehistoric settlers. From this cave alone some 69,000 stone implements and various human remains have been recovered. Some of these tools date back to the middle and early stone ages (130,000 to 30,000 years ago).
St. Lucia was first named in 1554 as Rio dos Medos do Ouro (alternatively Rio dos Médãos do Ouro — River of the Gold Dunes) by the survivors of the Portuguese ship São Bento. At this stage, only the Tugela River mouth was known as St. Lucia. Later, in 1575, the Tugela River was named Tugela. On 13 December 1575, the day of the feast of Saint Lucy, Manuel Peresterello renamed the mouth area to Santa Lucia.
In 1822, St. Lucia was proclaimed by the British as a township. In 1895, St. Lucia Game Reserve, 30 km north of the town, was proclaimed. Since 1971, St. Lucia Lake and the turtle beaches and coral reefs of Maputaland have been listed by the Convention on Wetlands of International Importance (Ramsar Convention). In December 1999, the park was declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
The park is also home to about 1,200 Nile Crocodiles and almost 800 hippopotamuses.
Other animals include leopards, Greater Kudu, Black Rhinos, rich avifauna and numerous invertebrates.
Under Köppen-Geiger climate classification system, it has a humid subtropical climate (Cfa).
(Wikipedia)
St Lucia ist ein Ort im Distrikt uMkhanyakude, östlich des Verwaltungssitzes Mtubatuba der gleichnamigen Gemeinde in der Provinz KwaZulu-Natal von Südafrika. Die Kleinstadt ist ein beliebter Ausgangspunkt für touristische Touren im iSimangaliso-Wetland-Park (ehemals Greater St Lucia Wetlands Park). 2011 hatte die Stadt 1104 Einwohner.
St Lucia liegt an der Mündung der Lagune des St.-Lucia-See auf einer schmalen Landzunge, begrenzt durch das St. Lucia Estuary im Westen und den Indischen Ozean im Osten. Der Ort liegt etwa 240 km nördlich von Durban. Die Straßen sind schachbrettförmig angelegt, die Hauptstraße ist die Mackenzie Street, wo sich die meisten Geschäfte und Tourismus-Dienstleister befinden. Zahlreiche Bootsanleger ermöglichen den Tourveranstaltern Ausflüge in die St. Lucia-Lagune und aufs Meer an der Elephant Coast. Weiter im Inland befindet sich das Dorf Khula Village und im Süden schließt sich das Siedlungsgebiet von Mapelana (Maohelane) an. Der iSimangaliso Wetland Park erstreckt sich vom Ort aus noch ca. 10 km weiter nach Süden und ca. 60 km weit nach Norden an der Küste, die hier stark durch Feuchtgebiete gegliedert ist, allen voran die Lagune des Lake St. Lucia, die sich von St Lucia über ca. 30 km nach Norden erstreckt. Im Park befinden sich die höchsten bewachsenen Sanddünen der Welt und als Sehenswürdigkeit auch das Cape Vidal Lighthouse.
Im Ort starten zahlreiche Wanderrouten wie iGwalagwala Trail, Emoyeni Trail (63 km), Mziki Trail (40 km).
Etwa 20 km südlich des Ortes liegt das Cape St Lucia mit dem Cape St Lucia Lighthouse St. Lucia wurde zuerst 1554 als portugiesisch Rio dos Medos do Ouro (Rio dos Médãos do Ouro, dt. Fluss der Goldenen Dünen) benannt Damals landeten Überlebende des portugiesischen Schiffs São Bento dort an. Zu dieser Zeit hatte nur die Mündung des Tugela River den Namen St. Lucia erhalten. Später, 1575, erhielt der Fluss seinen heutigen Namen. Am 13. Dezember 1575, dem Fest der Heiligen Lucia, benannte Manuel Peresterello das Gebiet um in „Santa Lucia“.
1822 wurde St. Lucia von den Briten als Township institutionalisiert. 1895 wurde 30 km nördlich des Ortes das St. Lucia Game Reserve (Jagdreservat) gegründet. im Gebiet von KwaMbonambi.
Nach der Köppen-Geiger-Klima-Klassifikation ist das Klima in St Lucia ein humid subtropisches Klima (Ostseitenklima, Cfa).
(Wikipedia)