Mkhuze & St Lucia birding Sep 2008

Our first holiday together as a couple! We drove down to Pongola where we slept in the caravan park and then onto Mkhuze Game Reserve where we spent four days of spectacular birding. Despite the first day begin very windy and rainy, we decided that Mkhuze must be one of the top birding spots in South Africa. We visited the fig forest, had a night drive during which I saw nightjars for the first time, and had our first ever day of topping 100 bird species ID'd in a day. Then we moved onto St Lucia for four days where we did some more leisurely birding, canoeing and a boat ride up the estuary.