Riverbend Chalets & Campsite

10/07/2025

Beautiful full moon over the Umtentweni main beach.

10/07/2025

Evening falls quickly in the campsite.
The last bird calls as they fly swiftly into sheltering trees make way for the first night sounds of shrill painted reed frogs, bats, nightjars, crickets, owls and maybe the startling cry of the lesser bushbaby.

18/06/2025

The Umzimkulu River Bridge has been closed for emergency repairs and rehabilitation since March 17, 2025.
The repairs are needed because prolonged rainfall and floods have caused the bridge piers to rotate, making the structure unstable.
The repair work is expected to take six months.

I asked a worker with a clipboard on site how the project was progressing... the answer... good.
The alternative routes to Port Shepstone are via the Toll Road or via the Batstones Drift road. This will take you past the popular Spiller's Waterfront/ Warf, a small shopping mall, and to the back of Port Shepstone.
The bridge is open to Pedestrians, bicycles and motorcycles.
You see many Checkers Sixty 60 delivery bikes dashing to make their deliveries on time.

15/06/2025

To all our fathers, we wish you a wonderful and blessed day.

06/06/2025

More sardine fever on our coast

02/06/2025

01/06/2025

Sardines beached today at Port Shepstone spit.
The day was superb. No wind, sparkling sunshine and a frission of excitement palpable in the gathering specators.
Vendors offered their catch, dangling the tiny silver fish for sale.

29/05/2025

Umtentweni, our slice of paradise on earth.
This video with kind permission from Hendrick Scott, Pam Golding estate agent in Umtentweni.
Contact 0763694423

26/05/2025

SARDINES sighted at Umtata! The sardines are the dark patches close to the shoreline.
People have seen whales passing Seapark today!
Don't miss the "greatest show on earth"

17/05/2025

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