The view out the Nzama’s back door – I thought it catches a lot of what Port Durnford is about. The yellow daisies and the Esikhawini chapel. This taxi travels around the area where we have our boarding. Therefore a number of times we have found ourselves behind it and I can tell you it is well named.

Joe Marais is a wildlife painter who works in the Richards Bay mall. He is doing a very large mural to be auctioned off with the proceeds going to charity. We see women carrying loads every day – we caught these ladies as they were walking along the road to Esikhawini.

A week ago we finally went out to the Port Durnford beach by ourselves and the next week we took the Mickelsens out to see it. Great sand dunes, beautiful white sand beach, and a river runs through it.

We had a good laugh at this sign warning about walking on the non-existent lawn. Elder Mickelsen introduced me to Spur’s chocolate milk shakes. A big mistake because now I order one everywhere we eat – the best I have found so far is the double thick one at Maxi’s.

Gogos -grandmothers and great-grandmothers – seem to always have children on their laps. This great-grandchild of sister Nzama never seems to smile – my goal is to get a picture of her smiling before we go home. Mama Zulu from Enseleni with her grandson.

We drive by an aluminum plant almost every day. We often see truck lots of ingots – as seen here – and sometimes we see trucks that is hauling hot aluminum. We are not sure where the trucks are going but they head towards the harbor. We had to laugh when we saw this speed limit sign on a Port Durnford sand road in the middle of no-where. I finally got a picture of my plain looking, yellow beak bird in flight. The great looking white under-wing does not show when it is hopping around the Esikhawini lawn.