We have a little baby orphan nyala at the camp. It's become quite used to us being about, and despite being so young it is somehow managing to survive on its own. It's not looking as well as it might, as without it's mother's milk it's not getting everything it needs from eating leaves and dry grass, but it's certainly proving to be a tough little thing. A few days ago we discovered we had a new baby antelope just outside the office door. It turned out to...

The water supply here is a bit erratic - there is no way of knowing from one moment to the next whether there will be any. It's even worse for the animals, and so many of them, including Nyala, Giraffe and Zebra, have started to become regular visitors to our vehicle area where we had a stone trough with water in it, and to our big rain water tank. We've discovered that the water tank has sprung a leak (the animals discovered it first, and after the giraffes ke...

I went to two schools today to assist with ecology lessons. They were both schools that I had been to before when I was here last time. The classes turned out to be the same ones that I had met when I helped with previous lessons, and one of the classes had also been to the Bushcamp that I helped with. It was lovely to see both groups again, and I was amazed that they all remembered my name - both my English name, and the Zulu name that I have been given - Khe...

It's winter here, but it's warming up...hopefully. The past two days have been nice and warm, and the nights less bitterly cold. When I arrived at Jo'burg on Sunday morning it was cold, and after checking into my hotel I turned on the heating as high as it would go to warm the room up to take a post-flight nap. I ventured out of my room that afternoon to find the biting wind had dropped, and sun was warming things nicely. As soon as the sun set that all c...

Dotted about the reserve there are a few buildings like the one that I am currently staying in. They are all named after animals, there is Blesbok and Rhino, and a couple of others. Mine? Well mine is called "Vodka". To add insult to injury I do have a bottle of red wine, but no way of opening it. I have learnt that Leatherman do not regard a corkscrew as essential on all of their survival multi-tools. Hmm.