Endangered Loggerhead turtles have finally settled down to their nesting and created records on the Northern KwaZulu Natal coastline.

With careful monitoring over the project area, morning and night to ensure the safety of these huge sea creatures, the Loggerhead and the Leatherback turtles have responded by breeding almost entirely within the Greater St Lucia Wetland Park, which is a designated marine protected area and a World Heritage site.

Numbers have declined in other areas due to the consumption of tutle meat and eggs by poverty-stricken communities and fishermen’s abandoned drift nets drowning the imprisoned turtles.

One of the most facinating places to visit on your tour of South Africa is the St Lucia Wetlands. The diversity of wildlife and outdoor activies will have you wishing you could stay forever! Imagine wandering through coastal forests fringed by white, sandy beaches watching the whales and dolphins perform for you in the surf, whilst if you are incredibly lucky, in the warm summer evenings in the months of October to March, you may well find the baby turtles emerging from their nest sites on their dash to the sea. What paradise!

Take a look at South Africa – The Good News for the full article on the safe haven for sea turtles, where you’ll discover more about the WWF/Green Trust Turtle Monitoring and Community Development Project.

Tailor Made South Africa Travel is now back online! Can you believe it but we have been three and a half months without internet connection here in the office. Moving to Spain was the easy bit and I must say that in all the dreams and actuality of the move, I never once imagined that we would have so many internet problems. Other problems, yes, especially language and communication with real people, but never once did I think we wouldn’t be able to access the internet.
Needless to say we will be breaking open a bottle of South African sparkling wine to celebrate our great good fortune. A bottle of Villiera Tradition from Stellenbosch has been sitting on the cellar stairs just waiting for a suitable opportunity to be consumed! I think it deserves to be tonight.
I feel like a small girl in a sweet shop – the excitement is almost too much. This blog is the first thing I’ve done since we have been connected, but I wanted everyone to know that I can now talk to the world again. I must say that it’s been isolating in the extreme and a great example of how much we depend upon modern technology to operate our lives. Not something I wish to experience again in a hurry. So, long live Telefonica (for the time being).