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 St Lucia Estuary 

iSimagaliso Wetlands Park

KwaZulu-Natal

South Africa 

photo by Petrus Viviers

The place where Splendor is born every day is on the East Coast of Africa. The place where Heaven meets Earth is at an Estuary Mouth. It's True that St Lucia Estuary hasn't been connected to the ocean since 2007, but it doesn't mean we cannot enjoy sitting on a dune watching whales frolicking or skinks and snakes slithering across the road. 

We have 2 Diverse Ecosystems that can be accessed by road from St Lucia Estuary, the slumbering little town, The Dry Woodland Western Shores, or The Wetlands on the Eastern Shores of Lake St Lucia. Both venues offer great Birding, Game Viewing, and Walking Trails. 

photo by Petrus Viviers

Yes unfortunately to embark on the walking excursions you need to be somewhat walking fit. About 40 minutes will get you to excellent spots but if you can walk twice that much you might experience the serenity of being totally basked in splendor. 

Amongst The various trails, there is The Southern Beach Walk, The Northern Beach Walk, and all the other little trails that coincide with all these nature revealing walks. 

  

How to create Scouring Effect

Scouring effect is a very simple principal that any child that ever played with a hose pipe can explain to you. It is using water pressure to erode away sand. Well it seems the scientists and marine biologists that created the post Taylor Management plan could not comprehend exactly that.

Here is old photos used from the scientific paper by Dr Ricky Taylor as presented to the university of Cambridge for pier review to explain that the using of hydrology is nothing new to the scientific minds that have helped establishing a great system that won many awards including World Heritage Status.

The problem Andrew Zaloumis had with a working Estuarine system is that brought wealth to the The Greater St Lucia basin and with a self sustainable self funding system he could not prey the Park free from the South African Public. He could not obtain ownership and title deeds if the Park was a financial success.

The total monitory value of the Park is the reason the absolute demise of the system was planned, but Andrew did not calculate into his equation is the love for Nature and the park his late dad bestowed into millions of South Africans over a 60 year period. It is the struggle to overthrow the love his dad created by investing educational programs in future generations that led to a struggle of will that eventually initiated the total demise of a once great ecological resource that was the corner stone to South African Domestic and Foreign Tourism.

We will Revive St Lucia Uncle Nolli... We will...

Petrus Viviers

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Hoe Belangrik is n Estuarium

Borrowed because it best explain my message

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Hoe Belangrik is n Estuarium

Verbeel jou jy will besef hoe belangrik is n funksionerende Estuarium. Verbeel jou jy het die moed om met oorgawe die rol van n Estuarium in Moeder Natuur te probeer verstaan. Indien jy eg is in jou behoefte om te probeer verstaan vra dan n vriend of vriendin.. liefs n geliefde om jou te help, want dit moet iemand met empatie wees. Iemand wat sal omgee dat jy sal oorleef.

Sodra jy die persoon ge eien het en jou lewe aan hom of selfs, as jy braaf is, 'n haar dan kan jy hierdie baie belangrike oefening doen in vertroue. Die oefening wat jy speels sal verstaan dat ons op geleende tyd speel. Ons in die laaste fraksie ... Die laaste breukdeel van n sekond funksioneer.

Die eksperiment kan of sittend of staande uitgevoer word. Mens sou nou dink dat die n grap is, maar nee die mag dalk die belangrikste oefening in oorlewing wees wat jy nog gedoen het. Gaan staan of sit nou met jou rug na die persoon toe. Dis belangrik dat jy volkome ontspan. So ontspanne wees dat jy voel jy in n alternatiewe realiteit bevind... Amper n stase van slaap. Die is die belangrikste deel van die oefening.

Hoekom so ontspanne wees dat jy in droomland se randjie beweeg. Omdat ons in werklikheid in realiteit so ontspanne is dat ons glad nie ag slaan op die realiteit wat ons in die gesig staar nie. Ons is so vasgevang in ons eie weergawe van die werklikheid dat ons onsself nie n oomblik gun om die realiteit te verwerk nie.

Goed die persoon moet ferm wees. Met geen genade nie, want ons het in ons apatiese verantwoordelikheid sin geen genade nie. Die persoon wat jy gekies het moet sterk wees. Sterk in wil en gees.. sterk wees in vlees ook, want die greep wat ons op Moedernatuur se voortbestaan het is n genadelose ene. In werklikheid n meedoënlose ene. 

Wag die persoon moet doen is om sy of haar een arm ferm om jou te slaan. So by so dat jy nie een van jou twee arms kan beweeg nie. Al wikkel en kriewel jy hoe. Al probeer jy spartel. Die persoon se greep moet ferm en onwrikbaar wees. Soos die greep wat ons as mens op moeder natuur het. 

Verder moet die persoon nou sy of in die brawe mense se gevalle haar hand oor jou mond plaas. Op so manier dat hulle duim en voorvinger jou neus toe knyp. Jou mond smoor en jou laat smag na asem. Dit gaan nie help as sy of haar ferm greep speels gebreek kan word nie, wang ons gee Moedernatuur nie n spelerige kans nie. 

Die ander deel van sy haar hand moet jou mond ook by ferm en stewig toe gehou word. Die greep moet van so aard wees dat jy na asem smag, maar geen manier het om dit in te teug nie. Geen manier om los te worstel nie. Die doel van die oefening is om jou te versmoor. Die lewensgewende asem jou te ontneem. Jou van jou suurstof inasem te vervreem.

Hy of sy moet vasklou as jy begin spartel... Begin smag na asem. Jou kop moet sing.. jy moet swart neuwels voor jou begin sien. Jy moet verward nee bang nee magteloos voel hoe jy van jou lewe ontneem word. Jy moet vreesbevange wees die persoon gaan geen skiet gee nie. Daar moet n verwilderde wille hulp kreet in jou oë verskyn.

Hoekom sou jy braaf wees om iemand van die vroulike geslag te gebruik. Hoekom. Want n moeder is ongenaakbaar as dit kom by die veg vir die oorlewing van haar kinders. Sy sal enige iemand verbete veg wat haar kroos bedreig. Sy sal selfs to moord in staat wees om hulle veilig te hou.

Nou as die vroulike weergawe van mens eers besef dat die oefening die toekoms van haar kroos bepaal, mag sy dalk dit baie letterlik opneem om die boodskap aan jou oor te dra. 

Sonder n Estuarium kan geen wese op aarde asemhaal nie. Niks of niemand nie.

Dis hier waar die see en die revier ontmoet waar asem gebore word. Dis hier waar die enigste organisme wat koolsuurgas verwerk gekweek word. Dis hier waar lewe begin.

Eers as jy die waarde van asem verstaan sal jy jou plig teenoor die St Lucia sisteem besef.

Haal Asem sê jy. Ontspan sê jy. Wel hoe verwag jy moet Moedernatuur asemhaal as jy jou rug op haar draai. As jy elke hulp kreet ignoreer. As jy weier om jou greep op haar te laat skiet.

Dis hier waar jy moet besef... Ons lewe in haar doodsnikke.

Help moeder natuur om haarself te help. Teken die petisie en aanvaar dat ons nie Moedernatuur aan haar eie genadelose lot kan oorlaat nie. Dat ons nie kan bekostig om haar hulpkreet na asem kan en mag ignoreer nie.

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Petrus Viviers

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St Lucia Boat Cruises

The main attraction in St Lucia is by far the Estuary Boat Cruise to see Hippo and Crocodile. This is a World Wide Tourist Attraction and everyone should go on it least once. Well, at least once every Holiday Season. 

It is fun to keep up with the baby Hippos' life cycle as they mature and accumulate scars into adulthood. The Male fracas for dominance and their territorial demarcation of the Estuary, Mud Flats, and Grasslands.

Deep-Sea Fishing 

The second biggest Tourist Attraction is Fishing and probably Deep Sea Fishing. The local skippers/charters have a vast knowledge of where what species is hiding and most launches result in successful catches. 

Young and old find this a very attractive, although a very expensive proposition. The results of the pure adrenaline experience are worth the price. 

Recreational Rock and Surf

The foundation that paved the way to The Tourism Industry in St Lucia Estuary. Still, the one place that bridges any gap between father and son and father and daughter. No other sport had to mend so many relationships and no other sport or activities have forged so many patriarchal memories.

Al tough the World Heritage Status has turned their back on these activities/sport, but the fishing fraternity will prove their net worth to the Tourism Industry. Fishing knows no religion, age, or political affiliation. Fishing is the best common ground for forging bonds.   

Book your next fishing holiday in St Lucia Estuary. With 4u2Stay and we will make it a memorable one. We can arrange from Shark fishing to spinning and deep-sea fishing. 

We are all Born2Fish and forced to work. 

Flat Fish and Shark fishing are very popular. It is a catch and releases sport and the anglers take pride when releasing these lovely specimens. These fishing can be done on medium tackle from 11kg upwards. Mostly on sliding, but also on a very interesting rig called a dingle dangle.  

Very unique way of setting a hook with bait hanging from the hook. Also a very effective way of catching the bottom feeders like sand sharks and rays. The best bait for large sharks is sand sharks and rays. People swim almost anything to catch big sharks. Even 20kg Kob, 30kg Sand Sharks, and more.

Vila Mia is very centrally located in the Small Town of St Lucia Estuary. Offering cozy comfortable self-catering accommodation to the family holidaymaker. Villa Mia is one or two-bedroom units sleeping four or six people. Pricing is done in such a manner that it includes school-going children in the base price. House cleaning is available to any guests at their request. Self-catering is a concept that lives in the hearts of all Travelers and holidaymakers. We all want our space and privacy.

About Villa Mia

Villa Mia consists of 25 sectional title Apartments and is sold out to individual owners. These owners treat these apartments as an investment and their home away from home. When one sleeps here it is as if you are sleeping over in someone else's house. Holiday Letting through Sectional Title is not a commercially driven enterprise, but rather a unique opportunity to stay over as a guest in someone's house.

Self Catering means to take your own food and toiletries. Make sure you bring your own towels.  Keep the Apartment clean like you would have your own home. Remember you living inside someone else's dream and they offer you the opportunity to share in it. Please report all breakages to 4u2Stay so we can replace it as soon as possible in an attempt to give the next guest sharing this self-catering Apartment the same valued experience. 

St Lucia Estuary - Current Conditions

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- Mouth Not Open -

- Fish is on the Bite -

Let us face it. there is no way that one man can steal the splendour of our heritage. These beautiful Golden beaches was occupied by our ancestors for over 200 years now. Changing it into a money making racket will not diffuse our yearning to practice that what we are all well know for.  There is just one thing left to do. Let us enjoy the abundant spoils of our heritage and learn to live together in peace and harmony.

The one thing that is an upside of the destruction, "rehabilitation my arse", brought to us was the total collapse of the off shore prawn trawling Industry. Never before was such a large variety of fish caught from our beaches all year round. It is clear that the net trawling by catches can now grow into  record breaking monsters. We, the Rock and Surf anglers don't need to carry the blame by the likes of Barry Man and his band of merry men.

The only thing that still boggels my mind is why can we not drive on the beaches. I mean that must really sit well with Mr Valli Moosa. He totally destroyed an economy and took the right of the "previously disadvantaged" away from the, to experience the great life style that whites had during the Apartheid years.

Yes I am referring to the use of Recreational 4x4 vehicles between the low water mark and the high water mark.

I mean look at the extensive "rehabilitation" or as I like to call it ... dam building process that UNESCO undertook to redirect the iMfolozi river. Let us be fair once again. At least the back pressure is such that the iMfolozi retains it's flow a lot longer and we can have drinking water a lot longer in our taps now that it does not run straight into the ocean any more.

So let us recap the destructive restoration process.

• We now have a man made dam wall separating the ocean from the Estuary. 
• That was allowed in a sensitive area where we never drove but the reason why we where banned. 
• We don't have millions of prawns in the Estuary any more, but Bruce man can't blame the recreational angler any longer for something we could never achieved. 
• We can't drive on our man made beach surface, but our catch size and verity has increased ten fold. 
• We have water to drink and shower in, but we still concerned about the Estuary being open. 

The long and the short is the Estuary will not be functioning like we know it for at least one maybe two generations. This will have a catastrophic impact on Global Warming. Since there is nothing we can do to force UNESCO to return our functioning Estuary, we can only enjoy the spoils that derived from the management plan. 

Born2Fish

Forced2Work

- Dirk Nortje -
King Fish early August

Kobus Potgier
Garrick Early August

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Story Told by :
Petrus (Bierpens) Viviers
083 584 7473
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23 July 2017 - Estuary Current Condition

No Rehabilitation in Sight

Purely Man Made Manipulation

Photo by: Petrus Viviers
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To claim that this is rehabilitation is total bullshit. It saddens me that UNESCO supports this lie. This is man made manipulation of the truth. Nothing Less Nothing More. It is believed that Mr Zaloumis is well spoken in the art of manipulation. One resident claims that Mr Zaloumis has disclosed to him that as long as you give people hope you can manipulate their support. Well since he is a self proclaimed Gun Runner off the ANC Regime it is clear that he is walking their walk and talking their talk. He also seems to be very good at it.

Well I never though that Conspiracy at this scale is possible, but neither can I believe that all this is a coincident. True it could be that the major role players in the Industry is oblivious to what they are part taking in or it could be that they stupid enough to be manipulated. Either way we have to be careful on who we give our public support to. 

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Now I am not one vetting for public support, but it is clear some one has to state the facts regarding fishing and angling rights and environmental management and affairs. The final evidence that produced my Mr Richard Pen-sawyer on behalf of the state  that permanently closed our recreational use of 4x4 vehicles on the beach ... was a little crab that lived in the mud banks between the iMfolozi and St Lucia Estuary. Since the assistance of this little  crab is so insignificant to iSimangaliso Wetland Park and UNESCO I personally don't see any reasons to keep 4x4 Recreational users of the beaches any more.

Further this bull shit of Catch and Release as per World Best Practice needs to be addressed. The Recreational Fishing Industry is the fastest and biggest out door sport in the World. We are handing our rights to share in this Industry to By Catches on Huge Trawlers that indiscriminately over fish our coast lines or quotas allocated to them on biggest bribe biggest quota system. This has the result of the Recreational Rock and Surf angler that has to over compensate in allocated bag limits and over regulated fraternity.

Bruce Mann for one is totally biased towards over regulating the Recreational Rock and Surf Angler.  It may secure a well funded life style for him, but it is robbing a well balanced poor and under fed society all along the coastal regions. This has pulled the plug on many Domestic Tourism ventures around the country and with its most devastating impact on rural and remote destinations.

We must re think on who we give our public support to. Public perception plays a major role in decisions making. If we do not know what the facts are we should not get involved.


By Petrus (Bierpens) Viviers
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Fishing Report SA - St Lucia Estuary 22 July 2017

Fishing Report SA
St Lucia Estuary

Today the people were catching a shark bigger than 300 mm at Ingwe Beach St Lucia. They also caught some nice size Grunter and cob yes Dusky kob but they were mostly undersize people had to return them. The weather was very nice and we could see with the mist early this morning it would have been a great day for shad fishing.

Some people it easy for the bicycle boxes more than once and they called much more than the quote for the extra fish where retuned  safely to the water. We hope that on Sunday and Monday the fishing will just be as good.

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