Unfortunately lions and cheetah are not vegetarian, so ‘meat prep’ is part and parcel of looking after them. What goes in must come out, so the day after the lions and cheetahs have been fed, we clean their enclosures. As they are quite large areas this involves searching in long grass with a shovel at the ready and a wheelbarrow […]
Last week we went to Pilansberg National Park which is about an hour and a half away. This Big Five game reserve is the same size of Singapore, so obviously we only covered a small portion of it. We had some good sightings of Elephants and Rhinos which we don’t have here at Sable Ranch, as well as a […]
The best seat in the house is actually not in a house, but is the tracker seat on the front of a game viewer. Whenever an offer is made to do something new I generally say ‘Yes’, so leaped at the chance to sit in front of the bonnet on a game drive. There is just a lap belt to […]
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It’s a good job I don’t mind my clothes getting dirty when I’m out here. Feeding the Vervet Monkeys involves having milk spilled onto me from their bottles, and then bits of grape skin being spat out as they only like the flesh. If they are sitting on my lap or shoulders this of course means that it’s dropped onto […]
2/3rds of my time here is now over – time has flown by! Damien and Francesca have just spent a week here and I’ve dropped them off for their onward journey to Durban Airport. Another of life’s rich experiences also ticked off this morning – being the only white person in a busy petrol station and shop, then a one […]
Mkuze is another reserve about 45 minutes drive from here. There are some hides there, and we spent a few hours at one of them right over a waterhole. Upon arrival somebody had the bright idea of passing the home baked muffins around before we went into the hide, so we sat munching happily for a few minutes. Imagine how […]
We’ve attempted motion blur – with varying degrees of frustration and success. Motion blur is when you set your camera to a slow shutter speed, and pan with a moving object or subject, or in our case, moving animal. The hard bit is that you can’t pre-determine just how fast they will move, so don’t know how fast to pan […]
Dawn! Sunrise is just as amazing as sunset. As summer approaches here we are starting our game drives 30 minutes earlier, so now leave at 5.30 a.m. Getting up at 4.30 has its advantages, and last week we couldn’t go out for a couple of days due to rain. I got up on the third morning to check whether it […]
For two days this week we were confined to the lodge and grounds within the electric fence so we had a wander round and attempted macro photography. I don’t have a dedicated macro lens, just a setting on my camera, so I can’t fill my frame with an ant. Here are my shots though.
