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Mgobezeleni Estuary Mouth
Mgobezeleni Mouth 24 01 2013
Shazibe catchment - 2003
Mgobezeleni Estuary and upstream swamp 2004
Outlet to Lake Mgobezeleni. 2004
Lake Shazibe. 2004.
Closed Mgobezeleni Estuary. 2006.
Western watercourse entering Lake Mgobezeleni. 2006.
Mgobezeleni Mouth on 7 April, 2014
Breaching of the Mgobezeleni - the start
Collecting soil samples
The breach
Channel widening and the water flowng faster
Flowing at full speed
The estuary water level dropping
Flow gauging
Estuary breach - 4 January 2014
Aerial photo of Jesser Point and the offshore rocks
Mouth breach - 3 Nov 2012
Estuary breach - 05/07/2013
Estuary breach 15 March 2010
Outline of Estuary- 17 July 2014
Lower Estuary channel

Western watercourse entering Lake Mgobezeleni. 2006.

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Several of the watercourses that drain the sand catchment meet to the west of Lake Mgobezeleni. This is in a peat-filled basin that formerly supported rich swamp forest. Much of this forest has now been cleared for the planting of gardens or small-scale commercial crops.