Mom & I headed off to Durban beachfront to a new area called Ushaka. This has been built up in order to attract tourists, however its near the old docks which is hardly a salubrious part of town. It was a roasting hot day and in order to manage the parking, they have closed nearly all the side streets in the area with pretty much only one road in and out. Makes parking on days like this, holiday season, a nightmare. I was starting to get hot and frazzled as the first car park said FULL. However, just outside the second one, was a lovely little spot just right for the little Corsa Lite I had hired. Ushaka is basically an area of shops & restaurants / fast food joints. They have built a replica Pirate Ship in the grounds and the adjoining Sea World can be seen beneath its bow. There are a couple of shark pools you can just about stretch your neck to look into. No leaning too far of course. In the one, there were smaller sharks & loads of hammerhead sharks. We noticed a lone scuba diver and commented on how brave we thought he was. Especially when we saw the only reason he was in there was to clean the windows of the underwater viewing areas. I am not a big fan of sharks and seeing the cage people to climb into for viewing, gave me the shivers. There is also a large aquarium nearby & you could make out the packed stands of people watching the tricks being done by some poor captive marine animal.We met up with John, Jennifer & Sean and went on a 1.5 hour boat ride. This goes through Durban harbour which takes approx half an hour to get out of. You pass all the massive tankers who are either depositing or loading goods onto the docks. Some of the monsters are huge and require two tugs to get them set up or through the harbour. At the moment Durban harbour is suffering from some pollution & its killing a vast amount of fish. Consequently, we saw loads of dead fish floating in the harbour. I was relieved when our boat appeared sturdy and thus lowered the chances of capsizing. We had 30 mins out on the seas, going over some largish waves which did seem to be getting bigger as we headed for home. Then another 3o mins traversing back through the harbour to the safety of our dock.