Tag: travel
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Tiny love
Windows are one life’s greatest inventions. If you have ever driven at more than 20km/h in a game drive vehicle, you will know. Dung beetles flying straight into your face are no fun, kingfishers flying into your office windows..twice.. is, well just as bad! I’m no bird fan. My relationship with them over the years…
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Caffé á l’ant.
In all types of life – especially the working one – there are little routines that are a common topic of conversation everyday however they are so small that are forgotten just as quickly, only to be remembered the next day at the same time. Our common everyday topic is ants. Ants in our kettle.…
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Camera traps
Amongst the variety of things that are included in my daily routine, one of them are camera traps – movement sensitive and remotely triggered cameras that snap a photo every time something walk past its sensor. These types of cameras are widely used to study a range of cryptic creatures (a very fancy word used…
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Marula’s madness
A bit of background: Marula is my duiker – a small species of antelope named after the Afrikaans word meaning diver, which refers to the way the species jump into the bushes. I’ve been raising Marula since she was about 2 weeks old while I’ve been working at a wildlife rehabilitation centre in South Africa.…
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The beginning
When I was 22 I came to Africa for the first time seeking to distance myself from a life that was passing me by. When i arrived I fell in love like never before, with nature, with wildlife, with the wilderness, with my life.What was supposed to be a 3 month adventure, led me to…