Today a very popular picnic and fishing spot north of St. Lucia Town in the iSimangaliso Wetland Park, Mission Rocks is named for a Catholic mission station established in the area in 1888. The path leading from the parking area to the beach opens onto a scene of rugged, rocky beauty, revealing rock pools teeming with life at low tide and impressing with the thundering of crashing waves at high tide. There’s a sandy, open beach 500m northwards of the rocks, with a sea-cave where thousands of bats roost.
On the way to Mission Rocks, the uMziki viewpoints and picnic site, set right in the coastal forest, is a worthwhile stop. From atop the dune there’s views over Lake Saint Lucia to the west and the Indian Ocean to the east, and down below in the forested picnic site there’s an astounding variety of birds that would normally be very shy but here seems quite habituated to having humans around. There’s also usually a couple of red duiker to be seen.
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Vervet Monkeys are so cute
And naughty!
Ha ha ha ha true very naughty
So ongelooflik mooi daar!
Dit is regtig Aletta!
I always enjoy seeing photos from your escapades!
Thank you Kathy! We appreciate you spending some time with us.
What beautiful scenery, and wildlife!
You’d have such a great time at Mission Rocks!
so many beautiful photos
Thank you Gavin, very kind of you!
Beautiful pictures, I loved the St. Lucia area and the town, very pretty.
Thank you Sheila. St. Lucia’s one of our favourite places too!