LIGHTHOUSES OF SOUTH AFRICA : CAPE VIDAL

Sunday 3 May

We did a day trip from Hluhluwe to St.Lucia and Cape Vidal.

We'd been in St. Lucia a few weeks before, so we took Hanlie and Andrew for waffles at Ella's and a walk on the boardwalk to the beach.

It's sad to see the abandoned campsite and poorly maintained facilities throughout the park. We love the drive up to Cape Vidal with a stop at Mission Rocks.

The lighthouse is unmanned and in a bad state of repair; a few kilometres along an overgrown, abandoned no entry road - but we found it! No.2!

There used to be an old decommissioned lighthouse in the North of St. Lucia Wetland Park but it has been vandalized and destroyed. Heading South the next lighthouse was in Richard's Bay. This one was demolished in 2018 after erosion of the dune it was built on by 300 to 400m, left it precariously in danger of falling into the sea.  Plans to rebuild it have now been shelved by Portnet altogether.