It's Hot, Damn Hot

As Roosevelt E Roosevelt said in Good Morning Vietnam..... It was 41C here yesterday afternoon. Thankfully it has settled back to an almost bearable 31C today.

We are in Saint Lucia on the edge of the Isimangaliso Wetland Park which is a World Heritage site and home to a reported 526 bird species.

We haven't seen all of them, but with the help of our guide, Themba, we have found a good number- we wouldn't have even seen those if he had not pointed them out.  He was a great guide and happy to recommend him to anyone heading this way.

After the early morning routine at the game lodge, we had no problem with a 5.30 am start for our first birding walk yesterday. It meant that we were finished by 9.30 and back in the shade before the temperature hit its peak - but it was definitely HOT!

We had a lazy afternoon in the air conditioned comfort of our chalet, only venturing out as evening approached for a quick cooling dip in the pool. Unfortunately we chanced upon a lonely but talkative Canadian who had clearly been banished from his room by his wife. He professed knowledge of all things but assumed that since I was a simple Irishman I hardly knew where Canada was on the map. Seemed somewhat taken aback when I suggested that I would rather be in Ireland than living in Ontario with Donald Trump as US President.

I reckon he and Jimmy C would have come to blows within minutes.