Algoa Bay Journal: Day 3

On Wednesday, we woke up at 6 o’clock in the morning. At 6:30, we had breakfast. Then, we went to Addo Elephant Park. The drive took about one hour.

This park is the third biggest park in South Africa. Guide from the park showed us some animals such as elephants, kudus, warthogs and others. We came back to see the museum at the reception and we spent some time at the bird’s hide. We had a great time watching the animals and taking pictures of them. We had lunch at quarter to one.

Later, we headed to Swartkop’s estuary to meet a lady, Jenny Rump from an NGO, Zwartkops Conservancy.

Jenny Rump, Zwartkops Conservancy

She explained us how important the estuary is for many species, what kind of species live there and how pollution is affecting the estuary and the oceans. It was very shocking to see all those plastic bottles and other waste polluting this beautiful and essential area for the oceans’ diversity but, it was interesting at the same time. 

We came back to the resort at 5:35 pm. We had one hour to rest.

We ate dinner at 6:30 then, we went to our rooms and spent some time chatting with our classmates. We finally went to sleep at 9:30.

By Paul and Danaïs