The Future of KZN Wildlife Rhino Card

Many St Lucia residents have contacted St Lucia News regarding the KZN Wildlife Rhino Card and the future it holds. St Lucia News contacted the Rhino Club in an attempt to get some answers.

While the Rhino Club appears to no longer have a page of its own on KZN Wildlife's website, the most recent post on the Rhino Club blog (published in November 2012) states that current benefits will expire at the end of March 2013, so make the most of the Rhino Card while you have it.

Marketing St. Lucia

From the 8th 'til the 13th of January St. Lucia Estuary was well represented at the annual Vakantiebeurs Travel Expo in The Netherlands. This Travel Fair takes place in a central city in the Netherlands and 160 countries exhibit on a total surface area of about 16 soccer fields. In one of the halls there was a complete section set aside for South Africa, aptly called 'The South Africa Village'. Advantage Tours & Tailor Made Safaris were kindly invited to share the Tourism KZN stand this year where, on behalf of all tourism stakeholders of the province, they tried their very best to convince the Dutch public to consider visiting KZN on their next visit to South Africa!

Upgrade to St Lucia's Water Pipes

This is a quick newsflash to inform all St Lucians that there will be no water tomorrow, Thursday 24 January, from 7h00 until 17h00 due to a pipeline changeover. The existing pipeline is severely disintegrated and the only way to fix it is to install a new one.

So make sure you're showered before 7h00 and that you have sufficient tank or pool water with which to flush toilets etc throughout the day.

For more information, contact WJ Construction on 035 590 1464.

St Lucia's Water Pipes Run Dry

St Lucia residents are by now aware that the water pipes have run dry once again. While nobody can tell us the length of time we'll be without running water, what we have found out is that the cause of the water shortage is a broken pipe at the Saw Mill. Again. As far as we are aware, the problem is being worked on and the water will be running as and when it can be fixed. 

Death of KZN Plant Ecologist Leaves "Void" in KZN Wildlife Community

Rob Scott-Shaw (Msc. Botany), Plant Ecologist and Principal Nature Conservation Scientist for KZN Wildlife for the past 24 years left a void in the KwaZulu-Natal wildlife community when he died earlier this month.

St Lucia Community Welcomes 2013 with a Beach Party

The St Lucia Community waved goodbye to 2012 and welcomed 2013 in typical St Lucia fashion - partying on Estuary Beach.