Early in the morning, we often offer green apples together with coffee before the game drive. I see them all piled up on their plate. We also have pied crows around the reserve, we can often see them perching on trees or poles, and as their name suggests, their colour...
Rain is falling on Thanda on this day in mid-April, and it is most likely the last rain we see before the end of the year. But it is not the sudden and violent downpour together with the rumbling thunder of summer storms; it is a long, continuous, and cold rain. Not...
Since tourism popularised the Big 5, everyone started making their own list of five special animals to see, or maybe rather keep looking for, in the bush. If there is a Big 5, there must be a Small 5, and a Shy 5, for the ones we will most likely not see, and even an...
South Africans are, by necessity, incredibly resilient and eternal optimists. Notwithstanding high unemployment, rising food and fuel prices, corruption, and decaying infrastructure, not to mention Covid, we wake up each and every day ready to tackle whatever the...
Before every game drive you will hear me tell you that we are safe in an open vehicle because animals don’t really see us as people in a car, but only see one unit, and that’s why it is important not to break the shape of this unit, not to startle them and not to make...
