Turtle Egg Laying and Whale Watching

Leatherback

A giant sea turtle that can weigh over 800 kgs. Females will lay approximately 1,000 eggs in a season. This is done by laying a batch of 120 eggs every 9 to 15 days. They return to the coast every 1 to 5 years.

Loggerhead

This is a smaller Sea Turtle weighing up to 138 kg. Females emerge at night in late Spring to lay about 500 eggs in batches of 100 at 15 day intervals. Most return to nest after 2 to 3 years.

Whale Watching

May to November. Whale sightings are guaranteed.

The whales pass St. Lucia on a migration route between the Antarctic and Northern Mozambique and Madagascar, where they breed.

The majority of sightings are of Humpbacks, which tend to be more spectacular than the Southern Rights. South Africa is the fifth largest whale watching country in the world.

Sodwana Bay Fishing and Diving

A premier destination because of the unspoilt coral reefs. There is a large variety of fish including the coelacanth, blue marlin, whales, dolphins, sharks. It is also popular because of the variety of depths and dive sites that are available to divers. The entire area measures some 50kms and is a protected area up to 3 nautical miles out to sea.

There are plenty of trails through the unspoilt dune forest where one can encounter small game and vervet and samango monkeys.

Copyright St. Lucia Guest House Accommodation

The St. Lucia Wetland Park must be the only place on the globe where the world's oldest land mammal (the rhinoceros) and the world's biggest terrestrial mammal .

Nelson Mandela

iSimangaliso Park

500,000 acres, coral reefs, 200m sand dune forest.

Elephants, hippos, turtles, whales, crocodiles and 400 species of birds.

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