Sodwana Bay

Sodwana Bay is located on the east coast of South Africa, between St. Lucia and Lake Sibhayi.

Sodwana Bay National Park is located along the KwaZulu Natal coast, and consists of a narrow strip of forest covered sand dunes. this 1950's proclaimed National Park is an Angler and divers paradise.

Sodwana is situated within the Maputaland Marine Reserve and the only scuba-diving area along the Greater St Lucia Wetlands Park, (now renamed to Isimangaliso) coastline. Classified as one of the top dive sites in the world this 50km reef complex boasts with approximately 95 species hard and soft coral, sponges, other invertebrates and in the region of 1200 fish species. It is visited by approximately 35,000 scuba-divers per year. For a distance of 2km vast valleys of 700m deep are scattered around. We call these Submarine Canyon. It was in one of these canyons on the 27th November 2000 that the Coelacanth was rediscovered.

 

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Wind5.3 m/s
Cloudiness6 %
Temperature (min/max)37/37 °C
Pressure1006 hpa
Humidity31 %
Last update: 05 Dec 2024 @ 10:55

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