St Lucia Waits You… Cape Vidal falls within the St Lucia Marine Reserve. The Cape Vidal bay has a launch site for ski boats with deep-sea fishing and spear fishing being a popular sport. The bay is sheltered and snorkelling at a low tide is spectacular. Cape Vidal is near the site of the Dorothea shipwreck, a wooded barque which was lost in heavy weather on 31 January 1898. She was said to be carrying gold from the Transvaal. The whereabouts of the Dorothea is unknown; however there is a chain underwater in the bay that is said to have come from the wreck. Cape Vidal has access to the eastern shores of Lake St Lucia where there is a variety of game including reedbuck, other antelope, hippos, crocodiles and buffalo and a host of spectacular water, forest and grassland birds. The marine habitat is the route used by humpback whales on their northerly migration to Mozambique to calve. Other sea creatures include migratory marlin, sailfish and dolphins. In December the Loggerheads and Leatherback turtles come onto the beach to lay eggs. #LeatherbackLoggerheadTurtles #MarineReserve advantagetours.co.za
Posted on: Wed, 19 Nov 2014 07:06:39 +0000
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