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 […]
Well, I’m back from the most fabulous experience. I learned such a lot about African wildlife and birds, and that was down to our lovely guides – mostly Ali and Simon. They are both English, and are now loving life in the bush. I’ve always been fascinated by people who ‘up sticks’ and do something completely different, and it was […]
One of our duties at Thanda was to help out with conservation there and in the community. I’ve cleared chromolaena, an alien plant that smothers all other plants, litter picked along the road that runs through the reserve, and pulled up onions from the garden in one of the communities that we have a relationship with. The onions smelled amazing:) […]
Well today has been a ‘once in a lifetime’ day! African Impact were involved in a Community Day, which was a bit like one of our Eistedfodds but with extremely loud music, (think rock concert level) a hall packed with about 800 people, and vaguely organised chaos! On our way up to the community (the equivalent of a village back […]
Last month I had 6 photographers on the project, and on our very first game drive we had a wonderful sighting of a lone impala at the brow of a hill. It’s very rare to see impala without assorted grasses, twigs and branches either in front or behind them, making any photographs quite ‘busy’ and distracting. This was a wonderful […]
There are so many trees here at Thanda I decided to dedicate one drive each month to photographing them. Here are my efforts. Clicking on a photo brings it up full size. Below is the fever tree. It has the most beautiful pale green bark and really stand out from the others. It’s called a fever tree because the early […]
