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Mtunzini (Mm-tun-zee-nee) is a teeny-weeny coastal town that is situated almost exactly halfway on KwaZulu-Natals coastline in South Africa approximately 140 km north of Durban. The severalize is an isiZulu word meaning place in the shade. After the breakup of the Zulu ground after the Anglo-Zulu War, Sir Garnet Wolseley created 13 kinglets with two strategically located as pilot z unmatcheds between Port Natal and Zululand. One of these kinglets was John Dunn who used Mtunzini as his capital.Umlalazi Lagoon at dusk In 1948, 9 square kilometres of dune forests, lakes and lagoon at Mtunzini was proclaimed a nature reserve cognize as the Umlalazi Nature Reserve. This area falls under the protection of the Ezemvelo KZN Wildlife (previously cognize as Natal Parks Board). The Umlalazi Lagoon is a popular tourist attraction for watersports enthusiasts and fisherman alike. Recreational and commercial ski-boat boat fisherman as well as launch their boats in the lagoon and they then head for the IndianOcean via the mouth of the Umlalazi River. Mtunzini is a bird watchers paradise and is renowned as one of the few places where one of South Africas rarest birds of prey, the Palm-nut Vulture, is found. These birds feed on the fruit of the Rafla Palm which produces its fruit erst every twenty years before dying. Visitors can enjoy a walk through the lush vegetation at the Rafla Palm Monument, which features a raised boardwalk that meanders through to the magnificent palms.Mtunzini Beach Mtunzini boasts, among other attractions, pristine beaches, a 9 hole golf course at the Mtunzini Country Club, AA-Event and knob House, numerous Bed-and-Breakfast establishments as well as a paradigm of camping, caravanning and other self-contained holiday accommodations. Be warned, the beach is NOT saved by shark nets due to Mtunzinis proximity to a shark instruction ground populated by Zambezi Sharks as well as some(prenominal) others.