Wooly Necked Stork in White Mangrove grove

Astounding Southern Africa - Hluhluwe, Tuesday 2015 February 24

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February 24th 2015
Leisurely day today, with an 8:30 departure to the St Lucia Estuary, about an hour’s drive. The scenery consisted of pineapple plantations, the thick natural forest of a public reserve, and eucalyptus commercial forests (they are eradicating eucalyptus from public land because it is an invasive and water hungry species). S ... read more

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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