Revisiting The 1942 Development Plan

Aquafarming The St Lucia System

The iMfolozi Flood Plains

 #Religion101

The Umfolozi flood plains were reclaimed and sold to the public in 1928 to fund the British Soldiers coming back from WWI..

But that is irrelevant.. In 1718 Sedimentation build up in the St Lucia basin was identified as a reason why the Royal British Navy did not see St Lucia Estuary fit to develop as a harbour..

You see school Geography teaches us Natural Erosion.. this is where rainfall on the mountain and it slides down into the valley to create fertile farmland.. anyway..

St Lucia couldn't function naturally anymore back in 1718

Since God gave dominion over Nature to man more than 8000 years ago.. about 2000 before the Glacier that covered this area melted.. it is only fitting to continue with 1942 Development plan of turning The St Lucia Basin into the biggest man-made Marine Aquaculture in the history of mankind.

If not .. the system will choke to death.. a natural course that these systems undergo.. and become farmland..

My take on this.. a Marine system is much more important than more crops.. cheaper to develop and much more productive in green protein than any other commercial farming operation..

As a freshwater system, it has a limited life span and very little use..

As a marine system, it populates the Tugela Shelve, the sandbank running from South of Durban to Mapelane Bay just South of St Lucia Estuary.

As a marine system, it is a Nursery to 50% of all the marine species of South Africa.

As a Phytoplankton Production Facility, it keeps the only organism alive that mitigate global warming every 48 hours

We cannot turn our back on managing The St Lucia basin as a Marine System and we don't need the Umfolozi flood plain to do it.

It was already silted up in 1718.

Regards

Petrus Viviers

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PS This massive undertaking can be done through sourcing finance through the sale of beach driving permits.

The Death of an Ecosystem - 10 Aug 2015

St Lucia Estuary

Many moons ago, stuttering, dyslexic Petrus started with his lone campaign. At this time I already lost my children's inheritance twice in the fight for a Managed Marine Functioning System. In this very poor quality video, I tried my little heart out with substandard equipment telling the story of a dying system and a failing World Heritage Site. Today I watch this and think back.. all the criticism, not only because of the poor quality videos, but also the negative publicity it brought to the community. 

No one wanted to visit a dying system, but I was adamant that no publicity was bad publicity. We had to turn this decay around. I will never know if it was my continuous winning that irritated people enough to pick up the struggle or was it Covid19, but somehow everything came together and today we can look back and smile, laugh or sympathise with me.. 

Hippo Hunting St Lucia Estuary

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

#HerstelStLucia

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.

Herstel St Lucia Veldtog

Petrus Viviers

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© Alle Regte Op Intellektuele Eienaarskap Voorbehou

23 July 2017 - Estuary Current Condition

No Rehabilitation in Sight

Purely Man Made Manipulation

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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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Where has the water gone?

Public Perception

Managing The Truth

"Due to the nature of mass media the truth is irrelevant". - Captain Paul Watson

Well that is not quite as simple as that. Paul Watson has made a life out of managing public perception through emotional mass media statements. Yet nothing he does is relevant in saving the planet. Japan still kill whales. Some species of whales has become the rodents of the ocean and we are still very much emotional about Trophy Hunting.  Social popularity dictates that we have to be the Alpha Sheep to be acceptable. 

In order to save the Planet from greedy people and that includes Paul Watson, we have to embark on a fact finding mission. For many years a big concern was where does the water go. Well the answer is smoked screened in wind directions, evaporation and even tidal movements. So let us forget about all that. Let us focus on Mathematics. Something we can compute with out expensive computers to do the algorithms. 

To pump sediment from the beach we need to do it at a flow rate of 7 litres of water for every 1 kg of sand. Now that is easy to calculate how much water you need if you know how much sand you have to move. So the question begs it self to be asked. Why does one start with a water born sediment removal program in the begging of the winter (April 2016) in the height of a drought? The asthmatics is basic (Sediment Volume x 7 = Water Displacement).

Any way so the project was set at 11 years for completion. This was clearly not acceptable because in January 2017 mechanical equipment was brought in to move 96 000 cubes of sand. This is at the height of the Turtle Hatching Season.

St Lucia Estuary Hatchlings

But it did not stop there ... a total of 19 dump trucks and some excavators and bull dossers was incorporated to complete the next phase of the rehabilitation plan. Today it seems that the excavators has run into some difficulty digging out the mud from the previous iMfolozi River Flood plain. Any farmer can tell you that mud is the seal of a dam. Now the Estuary is no dam. but something has to keep the water above sea level. Sine the current water table is 1.2 meter above mean sea level. 

Some more food for though will be coming this way soon.

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   Petrus Viviers
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