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15/02/2025

Between Paradise and Purpose: A Letter to Safari Guides

In the darkness between night and dawn, when the bush still holds its breath and the world hasn’t yet asked anything of us, we carry more than rifles and responsibilities.

Whether you’re doing game drives in the Sabi Sands, chasing light across continents with a camera, or leading expeditions through the Arctic wilderness – standing under these ancient stars, in a place that holds a million stories, sometimes the silence can feel the heaviest.

This isn’t about how tough guiding is. This is about the spaces between. The spaces between game drives. The spaces between flights. The spaces between trips. The unspoken weight carried by every guide who’s chosen this path, whether in permanent camps or living from bag to bag, chasing seasons and stories across wild places.

To every guide reading this between moments - this beautiful burden you carry doesn’t make you less.

It makes you real.

And that’s exactly what this wild life demands.

Stay safe.
And don’t forget to be awesome.

Remember, the bush has always been our greatest teacher. And here’s its hardest lesson: Your expertise at reading tracks means nothing if you can’t read yourself. The next evolution of guiding isn’t about being tougher – it’s about being honest enough to admit when the weight becomes too heavy to carry alone.

Share this with a fellow guide or someone you think might need to hear this. Not because they’re necessarily struggling, but because they deserve to know they’re not alone in these quiet thoughts between drives. 🙏🏼

Credit to Gerry van der Walt

09/02/2025

With Heavy Hearts, We Say Goodbye to Sammy

It is with deep sadness that we announce the passing of our beloved giraffe, Sammy. He touched the lives of so many, bringing joy and laughter to all who had the privilege of meeting him. His sweet and quirky nature never failed to put a smile on people’s faces, making every encounter with him truly special.

Sammy brought us endless happiness, and his presence will be deeply missed. Though he is no longer with us, the memories he created will live on in our hearts.

Rest in peace, dear Sammy. You will never be forgotten.

02/02/2025

In The Lost World of the Kalahari, Laurens van der Post writes about living among the aboriginal men of the Kalahari Desert and describes how shocked they were that he couldn’t hear the stars.

At first they thought he must be joking or lying.
When they realized he really couldn’t hear the stars, they concluded he must be very ill and expressed great sorrow.
For the Bushmen knew anyone who can’t hear nature must have the gravest sickness of all

15/01/2025

Fun facts:
DID YOU KNOW❓

1)Birds don’t urinate.

2)Horses and cows sleep while standing up.

3)The bat is the only mammal that can fly. The leg bones of a bat are so thin that no bat can walk.

4) Even when a snake has its eyes closed, it can still see through its eyelids.

5) Despite the white, fluffy appearance of the Polar Bear's fur, it actually has black skin.

6) The average housefly only lives for 2 or 3 weeks.

7) For every human in the world there are one million ants.

8)A small amount of alcohol placed on a scorpion will make it go crazy and sting itself to death!

9) Alligators and sharks can live up to 100 years.

10) A honeybee has two stomachs- one for honey, one for food.

11) Elephants weigh less than the tongue of a blue whale. The heart of a blue whale is the size of a car.

12) Blue whales are the largest creature to ever roam the Earth.

13) A cockroach can survive for about a week without its head before dying of starvation.

14) When a dolphin is sick or injured, its cries of distress summon immediate aid from other dolphins, which try to support it to the surface so that it can breathe.

15) A snail can sleep for 3 years.

16) The fastest bird, the spine-tailed swift, can fly as fast as 106mph. (Peregrine falcon is actually 390km/hr or 108mph)

17) A cow gives nearly 200,000 glasses of milk in her lifetime.

18)The leech has 32 brains.

19) The average outdoor-only cat has a lifespan of about three years. Indoor-only cats can live for sixteen years and longer.

20) Sharks are the only animals that never get sick. They are immune to every type of disease including cancer.

21) A mosquito’s proboscis has 47 sharp edges on its tip to help it cut through skin and even protective layers of clothing.

22) The human brain has memory space of over 2.5 Million Petabytes which is 2,500,500 Gigabytes

17/10/2024

Did you know that "Mad Max: Fury Road" (2015)-Movie was Filmed in Namibia 🇳🇦 Africa?

The film's production team chose Namibia for its unique and dramatic landscapes, which provided an ideal backdrop for the post apocalyptic action movie.

The production Team had challenges in finding specific Unique places in the world to match the Story line and Namibia's diverse landscapes, from deserts to coastlines, offered an ideal setting for the film's action packed sequences which gave the film an opportunity to stand out.

Specific locations in Namibia used during filming were

1. Namib Desert 🇳🇦
2. Skeleton Coast 🇳🇦
3. Swakopmund 🇳🇦
4. Walvis Bay 🇳🇦

Namibia Has won the majority of the landscape Scenes in many Hollywood Movies because of its mind-blowing landscape and unique architectures.

📸 : Mad Max: Fury Road" (2015), Namibia 🇳🇦 💕

23/07/2024

⛰️BRANDBERG MOUNTAIN⛰️

Namibia’s highest mountain, the Brandberg Mountain Range (2573m) is situated in the Erongo region in the western part of Namibia, 90 kilometres from the Atlantic Ocean, and covers an area of 760 square kilometres. 🇳🇦

The Range gets its name from an almost black appearance and the bright colours that the setting sun paints onto the mountains as if the whole area was on fire.

20/07/2024

🫐 Blueberries please!🫐

Blueberry market: 'Namibia has an advantage'
Namibia currently produces 45 tonnes of blueberries every year, about 99% destined for exports, mainly to the European Union (EU).

The blueberry farm at Mashare in Kavango East injects about N$1 million to N$1.5 million per month into the local economy during the harvesting period.

The Mashare Berries Farm, funded by the Government Institutions Pension Fund - GIPF, has about 60 hectares under irrigation and exports its produce.

We are busy with development expansion plans. Next year, we will add another 30 hectares, bringing us to 90 hectares. Hopefully, within the next five years, we will reach close to 200 hectares under production.

The farm has over 100 permanent employees and seasonal employees peak at around 800.

Our blueberry harvest season precedes the South African one, so Namibia has an advantage of about four weeks. 😉🇳🇦

13/06/2024

📷Two large male hippos battle it out for prime territory along the Zambezi River. Mana Pools National Park, Zimbabwe. © Christopher Scott (Photographer of the Year 2024 entry)

03/06/2024

DID YOU KNOW?

🐝 A bee lives less than 40 days, visits at least 1,000 flowers, and produces less than a teaspoon of honey in its lifetime.
🐝 There are live enzymes in honey.
🐝 When in contact with a metal spoon, these enzymes die.
🐝 The best way to eat honey is with a wooden or plastic spoon.
🐝 Honey is one of the rare foods on Earth that alone can sustain human life.
🐝 One teaspoon of honey is enough to sustain human life for 24 hours.
🐝 The bodies of great emperors were buried in golden coffins and covered with honey to prevent putrefaction.
🐝 The term "honeymoon" comes from the tradition of newlyweds consuming honey for fertility after the wedding.

😉Huge gratitude to the HONEY BEE! 🐝

17/05/2024

🐾 ENDANGERED SPECIES DAY🐾

As the only scaled mammals on the planet, pangolins are perfectly adapted to survive attack from predators. Humans, the only predators they cannot escape, are the ones that want the very items that save them in the wild – scales.

Imagine a world where there is no need for an Endangered Species Day, and help to make it happen.

07/05/2024

In 1905, 115 years ago, British Engineers constructed the Victoria Falls Bridge linking Zambia and Zimbabwe. This was part of Cecil John Rhodes mega project of connecting Africa from Cape Town to Cairo via rail.

Note, however, that the bridge was built/prefabricated in England and then shipped to Mozambique and transported to its current location from the Port of Beira by rail for assembly.

The assembly took only 14 months and it fit according to specifications.

Note, that this was 125 years ago before computers were invented. The British Engineers had earlier come to assess the Victoria Falls gorge, take measurements and designed the bridge based on the geology of the gorge, then went to England to build the bridge!

To this day, the bridge is fully operational carrying both trucks and cargo trains - 115 years later.

25/04/2024

Heart found in a Rhino horn!🤍

A non-profit organization, Greater Kruger Environmental Protection Foundation.

19/04/2024

Did you know:

The word Chameleon comes from the Greek Khamaileon - from khamai meaning "on the ground" and leon which means "Lion". 🦁

So essentially a Chameleon is a Lion on the ground!

An endemic species to the Namib Desert, the NAMAQUA CHAMELEON, what a unique & captivating sight!
One of my personal all time favorites when spotted in the desert🌵

Told you to keep your eyes open for desert lions😉😝⚠️

20/03/2024

🍂🍁 HAPPY AUTUMN EQUINOX 🍁🍂

Today marks our first day of Astronomical Autumn

Our days become ever shorter
Our nights become ever longer
Our trees burst into their autumn colours
AND ... winter is soon to come knocking

03/03/2024

🌍WORLD WILDLIFE DAY🌍
Celebrate and raise awareness of the world's endangered species.
Today we chose:
🦴THE AFRICAN WILD DOG

also know as Painted Wolf……and nooooooo it’s not a Hyena nor a Aardwolf😉
Facts we bet you didn’t know:

🐾 Alpha female, being the oldest & alpha male, being the strongest, are typically the ONLY BREEDERS in the pack. They only have one litter a year, while the rest of the pack helps raise the pups. Alpha female will kill any other females litter in her pack😳

🐾Males are smaller than females and make the best babysitters, females are the better hunters🤷🏻‍♀️

🐾Wild dogs ‘sneeze’ to make decisions on when to hunt, if a dominant individual within the pack sneezes it is likely that the ‘sneeze’ vote will result in a hunt.

🐾 Successful hunting rate - 80%
Lions, Leopards & Cheetahs - 20/30%

‼️HIGHLY ENDANGERED‼️
3000-5000 left in the world due to
- Habitat loss
- Poaching
- Diseases
- Threats from other predators.

01/03/2024

Highway to hell
📍Sossusvlei

27/02/2024

Did you know:

Rhinos use communal dung piles, known as 'middens,' as their very own message boards!

They leave behind scents that convey crucial info like age, health, reproductive status, and more.

It's their unique way of staying connected in the wild.

Nature's messaging app, rhino edition! 🌿🦏

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