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St Lucia Wetlands and The Spider Story

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January 22nd 2009
*little story* PICKED ON BY NATURE........ The last day before we left the yengele house to head to Durban and onto St Lucia we went for a day walk in a nature reserve. It statred promisingly enough, a nice forest walk and not too hot. Butterflies and birds and seeing a couple of large monitor lizards clattering away through the forest away from us. Then the trail headed into dripping jungle t ... read more

Africa » South Africa » KwaZulu-Natal » Saint Lucia

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After the British seized the Cape of Good Hope area in 1806, many of the Dutch settlers (the Boers) trekked north to found their own republics. The discovery of diamonds (1867) and gold (1886) spurred wealth and immigration and intensified the subjug... ... read more