The heavy storm still did not pass over night. It rained buckets in the morning, making it impossible to stroll around the area, before our scheduled departure. St Lucia was deserted. It was the off season, but what as more detrimental was the Covid related impact, which completely devastated the tourism business here. Many restaurants and shops were closed, some even shut down permanently. Also, in South Africa the economic impact of the pandemic on the tourism is running deep. We still were remembering yesterday's moment when the territorial and aggressive nature of a hippo surfaced, because our skipper of the river boat approached a male too closely. The big animal looked at us with his fiery eyes, puffed loudly and started chasing us. Hippos can overturn smaller vessels or seriously damage bigger ones easily. Lucky
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