Thursday, September 17, 2020

LESSONS TO LEARN

Taking a mentored walk comes with valuable bush lessons, testing your skill, awareness and senses.

Our morning began wit a roar of lions within a kilometre of camp, we headed off in the direction where we had heard the roars. After half an hour we found tracks on a tricky stony ground and the lessons began on safely, observation and anticipation of the environment.

Take nothing for granted as you may not find the animal you are tracking, but something else.


After following the lions tracks down the river, where they drank and returned back into the bush, and still on their trail, we startled a hyena which ran off. Watching the hyena disappear , we scanned the surroundings and spotted a black rhino bull making his way in our direction.

Wind was perfectly in our favour.

We now had a bodyguard to follow and investigate the hyena activity.

We slowly and silently watched the bull who led us to a few more hyenas, vultures and jackal activity. While observing the interaction between the rhino and the other scavengers, we heard the pride feeding on the remains of a giraffe about 100m ahead of us.

We spent some moments observing and quietly retired without our presence being known.

Sensibility and humanity - Special Moments!!

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LESSONS TO LEARN

Taking a mentored walk comes with valuable bush lessons, testing your skill, awareness and senses. Our morning began wit a roar of lions wit...