Irma King
Retiree Irma, who was born in the Netherlands, moved to South Africa in 1968 with her British husband, the author of numerous marine books. They have lived all over the world – Belgium, Hillbrow, Bristol, Durban, Swaziland, Umhlanga, among other places – but St Lucia is their home. “We moved here permanently in 2008. It’s too busy for us during the holidays – sometimes you have to wait two to three hours to get into the reserve because they only allow 250 vehicles in at a time, but that’s a small price to pay for the paradise we have to ourselves for the rest of the year.”