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A More Colourful Look at Nature’s Secret Calendar... Most travellers arrive in St Lucia expecting sunshine, sandy beaches, and safari adventures. But those who linger a little longer, who pause to watch the tide shift or listen to the night sounds from the forest, quickly realise something: this place moves to a rhythm far older and far richer than the four seasons printed on a calendar. St Lucia lives by nature’s seasons...

There are places in the world where nature seems to follow ordinary patterns, and others where it breaks them entirely. St Lucia, a small, coastal town wrapped in the embrace of the iSimangaliso Wetland Park belongs unmistakably to the latter. This is a landscape where ecosystems blend in improbable ways, where wildlife moves confidently between human spaces, and where the natural world still feels vast, unfiltered and astonishing. It is little wonder...

There are few moments in life that remind us of nature’s quiet wisdom and unspoken harmony, moments that stop us in our tracks and leave us humbled. One such moment unfolded recently on the iMfolozi side of the Hluhluwe–iMfolozi Game Reserve, when a herd of around twenty five female elephants and their young crossed the dusty road before us. Engines idled. Conversations hushed. And in that stillness, we watched one of nature’s...