Atractions and anemities in Zululand

The current Government has structured the management to function on grassroot level. District Municipalities should benifit from this, but like all other departments jumping on the gravy train can overload the local Economy.

The other problem is not expanding the income base to such an extend that all monies that can be earned are earned through the Tax base. It is important for such management to seek avenues to increase the income potential of their tax base.

In the case of small towns like St Lucia tourism is a big source of income and this includes domestic tourist. In this case South Africans. The main atraction to St Lucia Estuary over the years was fishing.

This included Rock and Surf, Estuary and Deep See fishing. With World Heritage status many people jumped on the environmental band wagon and many dissisions was taken surrounding the myths about being green.

One of the bad dissisions was to bring in eco tourist. Eco Tourism is not all that productive and certainly not environmental friendly. People reading this will think the author is crazy, but any one who care to calculate the carboon footprint of a domestic tourist vs a eco tourist will learn the true facts.

For this reason it is not understood why so many roads and Hotels are planned and built in a World Heritage Site while dune mining on its borders are allowed. Why low impact tourism like beach driving is not allowed and why the channel and drain system between the iMfolozi River and St Lucia is not maintained.

It seems a case of bullshit baffels brains . ... ...

St Lucia Estuary is in the worst case of health ever. Water supply, fresh and sealine, should be managed. recreational beach use does not impact on the environment the same as beach resort development. ...

Turtle nests cannot be damaged by a recreational vehicle driving over it but the nesting behaviour of these turtles are influanced by the ambient light of a resort development. ...

Hard surface development are fore ever ... Recreational use has an impact of between 0 and 5 percent ...