St Lucia Estuary

If you have been reading the blog you know that we have been to the St Lucia Estuary twice in the last 30 days. Here are pictures of some of the things we saw on our trips.

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On our second visit we took the road to Cape Vidal and along the way we came across 2 large cape buffalos who let me get closer than I probably should have been and posed for me. The picture of the bay with what looks like a pile of rocks along the shore is actually one of a herd of hippos resting in the shallows. At another stop along the way there was a shallow pond that was the happy resting place for another herd of hippos – these we could get much closer to. I would have gotten closer except for signs such as this:

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