We took a boat cruise of the St. Lucia Estuary, which is right next to the town of St. Lucia (Natal, South Africa). We saw a LOT of wildlife on this boat tour, including a couple of goliath herons like this one. The goliath heron, with an overall length of 4-5 feet and [...]
One thing South Africa’s province of Natal churns out a lot of is pineapple. There are TONS of them around. At every stop sign, street corner, flea market, etc., you will see people hawking them. The usual kind there are smaller and sweeter than the ones we are used to in the [...]
The Taipei 101 building, is located in the Hsinyi district in Taipei, Taiwan and is also known as the Taipei Financial Center. With 101 stories and reaching 1,671 ft (509 m) high, Taipei 101 became the world’s tallest building when it was topped out in 2003, surpassing the Petronas Towers. The multiuse steel-and-glass skyscraper [...]
I was in the Northern Territory of Australia when I came across this lizard. It just happened to be just beside the foot path around the Olgas (or Kata Tjuta as the aborginals call them.) Kata Tjuta is a group of 28 rounded hills just west of Uluru (or Ayers Rock.)
-Michelle, Posting from [...]
South Africa has some of the most colorful grasshoppers I’ve ever seen. I’ve seen blue ones, bright orange ones, and this lady (fellow?). I’ve also seen a gigantic one at least the size of my finger.
Taken by the “shore” (it’s now mostly a dry lakebed) of Lake St. Lucia, False Bay.
St. Lucia is very near a World Heritage Site–a big internationally recognized nature area that includes the St. Lucia Estuary and Lake St. Lucia. It is in South Africa on the Indian Ocean about halfway between Durban and the Mozambique border. False Bay (not to be confused with the False Bay near Cape [...]