Lodge update!!
We have had an incredible amount of rain.
Over 200mm in 4 days which makes for interesting times out in the park 🛶
Some roads are not drivable anymore, but it's not all bad. Now, all of our dams are at maximum capacity, the watertable where we all draw water from for the lodge (borehols/wells) will be replenished in a few weeks once the water filters through the soil and rock bed. All the vegetation gets more then enough water for growth.
In the long run, this is an amazing blessing.
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A lovely cell phone image of this beautiful male leopard.
Night time is wild 🐆
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Amazing the difference one month can make.
We have been so blessed with the amount of rain over the past month. As said previously, it's incredible how the bush bounces back. Long may it continue.
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2025 has already been a "year" of blessings
No music, just the sound of flowing water and frogs praising.
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This is what you call a "Journey of giraffe"
So amazing to have 13 giraffe gathering at the lodge waterhole for a sundowner 🍸
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These were the toughest few months yet!
One of the driest seasons yet, with elephants refusing to leave camp.
This past Winter made for interesting "commutes" between guest rooms and the main lodge. On any day we had about 80 elephants roaming through camp to eat from the "protected" trees between rooms and back-of-house. Any small job outside was always a 2 man job - 1 to do the job, the other to keep a look out for the big fellas.
Needless to say, the vegetation in camp looks like a war zone, but it is slowly returning after some amazing rains.
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Kids on safari 🫶
The best knowledge we can teach children is to understand and protect nature.
Whether it is a walk in "the wild", making molds of animal tracks with plaster or a friendly competition of dung spitting.
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While sitting in the hide we could hear the Blacksmith lapwing going crazy about something, but couldn't see what it was.
A few seconds later this handsome fella came walking up the dam wall not paying the lapwing any attention.
Love seeing the smaller things around the lodge 🦎
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When the Gin stop is interrupted by a Giant.
Love this!
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