Eco Explore Africa

07/05/2024

Many years ago a dear friend Karin Learmont took pity on a young Afrikaner boy who could hardly speak a word of English (still struggle with is and are)and introduced him to a world of English prose and poetry that enriched his life then and still now at age 76. My all-time favourite is Gerard Manley Hopkins. When I am out in the bush or just wishing that I was out in the bush I see his poetry all around me.

So I decided to try and match snatches of his poetry with photos from Wendy and my coddywompling around Southern Africa.

Inversnaid
What would the world be, once bereft
of wet and wilderness? Let them be left,
O let them be left, wildness and wet;
Long live the weeds and the wildness yet.

17/05/2022

It really makes you appreciate what we tend to take for granted 🐝

When we buy honey 🍯from the supermarket, the thought 🤔doesn’t really cross our mind that it takes approximately:

550 bees 🐝
for 2-3 weeks 😯
to produce 454g of honey 🍯

And minimum of 30 minutes per 1 hive for the beekeeper to collect the honey 😳

That’s only a fraction of effort and work what goes into it.

👏🏻Thanks to .sanctuary 🐝
For those rescue bees and for the practical ‘lecture’ I had!
Fascinating! ☺️

Do check out their page and website 👍🏻

🐝🍯🌼🌳🍊🍎

24/03/2022

14/02/2022

There's no need to travel too far to give our Cruiser a workout 😄With the generous rains 🌧we’ve had, the bush is lush but the roads are eroded.
The Cruiser, on the other hand, isn't complaining because it's been four months since our last 4x4 adventure.
We have a number of exciting adventures planned for this year, starting with Botswana in March.

04/12/2021

KwaMbili is situated in Thornybush Nature Reserve. Thornybush is a Big Five game reserve open to Timbavati and Kruger National Park, appr. 40 km from Hoedspruit, 30 km from Hoedspruit (Eastgate) Airport, 160 km from Nelspruit, 480 km from Johannesburg. KwaMbili has air-conditioned safari tents and c...

01/11/2021

Welcoming our new residents 🐝 - the little rescues. ‘Bee Sanctuary’ specialises in the safe removal and relocation of bees.

We hear so often how bee colonies in unwanted places get ‘doomed’. Instead consider a safe and professional bee removal and relocation, and they will find a happy new home - like on this photograph - 🐝 Thank you to the Bee Sanctuary!

Bees at the new apiary quenching their thirst. Thank you Eco Explore Africa for the new honeybee home.

18/09/2021

27/06/2021

𝐍𝐨𝐭 𝐣𝐮𝐬𝐭 𝐚 𝐫𝐞𝐜𝐢𝐩𝐞 𝐨𝐧 𝐇𝐨𝐭 𝐂𝐨𝐚𝐥𝐬 🔥get the full story behind the ‘Boozy Bananas’ recipe from 𝗣𝗿𝗶𝘃𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝗚𝗮𝗺𝗲 𝗺𝗮𝗴𝗮𝘇𝗶𝗻𝗲 / 𝗜𝘀𝘀𝘂𝗲 𝟯 / 𝗽𝗮𝗴𝗲 𝟭𝟮𝟬-𝟭𝟮𝟴

Check the page 👉

👍𝗹𝗶𝗸𝗲
👍𝘀𝗵𝗮𝗿𝗲
👍𝘀𝘂𝗯𝘀𝗰𝗿𝗶𝗯𝗲

08/05/2021

When did you last see this ? 😯😮😳👍

22/02/2021

A new issue of Private Game Magazine has arrived.

14/02/2021

𝐓𝐡𝐨𝐬𝐞 𝐰𝐡𝐨 𝐟𝐢𝐧𝐝 𝐛𝐞𝐚𝐮𝐭𝐲 𝐢𝐧 𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐨𝐟 𝐧𝐚𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞 𝐰𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐟𝐢𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐦𝐬𝐞𝐥𝐯𝐞𝐬 𝐚𝐭 𝐨𝐧𝐞 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐞𝐜𝐫𝐞𝐭𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐥𝐢𝐟𝐞 𝐢𝐭𝐬𝐞𝐥𝐟.
- 𝐋. 𝐖𝐨𝐥𝐟𝐞 𝐆𝐢𝐥𝐛𝐞𝐫𝐭

Photo: Marabou stork
Photo credit: Johan&Annica Van Rensburg