The main campsite is situated on a hilltop where many sought-after Zululand butterflies congregate at midday. There’s a big clearing there where Charaxes species form their territories and engage in aerial battles. False Acraeas (genus Pseudacraea) are very fond of this arena.

Paths lead down into the surrounding coastal/riverine bush along which many great butterflies can be seen, like Large Striped Swordtail Graphium antheus and its relatives. Blonde Gliders Cymothoë coranus can be seen in the canopy where the paths run close to it, and Mocker Swallowtail females Papilio dardanus cenea visit flowers at the forest edge.

The bush forms a mosaic with coastal grasslands that can be very rich in flowers and butterflies during spring. The ant-associated Patrician Giant Cupid Lepidochrysops patricia can be found there.

Close by, the Anglo-Zulu War site Fort Pearson (key available at Reception) has a sharp hilltop where many good Lycaenids can be found, like Red-line Sapphire Iolaus sidus and Apricot Playboy Deudorix dinochares. At the nearby military graveyard, if fortunate, you can see Black-and-Orange Playboy Deudorix dariaves chasing one another around the forest edge.