Why you shouldn't walk around at night in St Lucia!

A little link...

St Lucia is the capital of "urban" hippos... with behavior that’s not always very urban.

https://www.citizen.co.za/zululand-observer/news-headlines/local-news/2025/05/01/watch-provoked-hippo-charges-group-of-people-in-st-lucia/

definitely don't provoke the rhino 😉 Is St. Lucia by a river?

... especially when you're in flip-flops on a dimly lit street?

A warning that digs up a memorable travel journal entry with an unforgettable moment. AirOne and the hippopotamus

In an estuary Crocodiles and hippos

thanks for the info

it's certain you shouldn't provoke the rhino 😉 Is St Lucia by a river?

Not the rhino but the hippopotamus !😏 It's true that this isn't something to take lightly! In South Africa, it's a bit like in the US: in some cities, you hardly see people walking. To go 100m and get to McDonald's, you take your car. We had found our accommodation. We told the landlady we were going for a walk toward the seashore. She looked surprised at our behavior: On foot?! Well, yes, on foot—we weren't going to take the car for a few hundred meters... On the way back, we stopped at a restaurant (they eat early there, so don't dawdle)... Then back to our place. It was pitch black... Just a few steps from our "lodge," on a grassy sidewalk, what did we see? A hippopotamus calmly grazing... We didn’t even think about whether we could pet it 😉, we just moved far away from its dining spot without drawing too much attention...

oops, my mistake—yes, it was actually a hippo we're talking about here

And on your avatar, is that a…? A what…? Oh, an elephant! 😛 Which, by the way, looks a little weird. Is that an AI-generated image?

Which is also a bit weird, by the way. Is this an AI-generated image?

No, it's a 3D model that I load into the software I created, and I can view it from any angle in real time. As for AI-generated images, my gripe is that they often all look the same, and they're poorly contrasted.