Year in the Wild Blog
Posts with tag Eastern Cape
Karoo road trip – Mountain Zebra National Park
The second protected area on my Karoo road trip was Mountain Zebra National Park in the Eastern Cape of South Africa. It’s one of my favourite. It’s small – only about 280 square kilometres, but its crammed with beautiful rolling hills covered in grass, and the high plateau of the Bankberg mountains.
The conservation of the South African endemic Cape Mountain Zebra is a remarkable success story.
By the late 1800s,
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Special moments at Addo’s Gorah Elephant Camp
While I was at Gorah Elephant Camp in Addo Elephant National Park, I picked up a copy of a remarkable book by Nicola Schwim, a former field guide at Gorah who now lives in the nearby city of Port Elizabeth, running her own organic fresh produce business.
Nicola worked for several years at Gorah, guiding guests around Addo and introducing them to it's
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Long live the Kings of Addo
Weighing up to 7 000kg, and measuring four metres at its front shoulder, an African bull elephant can eat 200 kilograms of plant matter and drink around 200 litres of water every day. Elephants are very, very big.
But statistics and adjectives cannot prepare one fully for a close encounter with earth’s largest land animal. Wild elephants command attention and respect like no other. And in Addo Elephant National Park, just 50km
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Cape Times Newspaper – September 2012 – Great Fish Nature Reserve
My time with rangers Buyisile Mkulungu and Siyanda Mgidlana in Great Fish Nature Reserve was one of the highlights of Year in the Wild. Every morning and afternoon, they track black rhino in the remote, dense spekboom thickets of the central Eastern Cape. My column in the Cape Times endeavours to capture the essence of their work.
Getaway Magazine – August 2012 – Mkhambathi Nature Reserve
Few people know about the small Mkhambathi Nature Reserve on the Pondoland coast in the Eastern Cape. But it is one of the most beguilingly beautiful in our country, and I can't wait to go back. My nine-page feature article in Getaway on Mkhambathi was published in the August 2012 issue.
Leisure Wheels Magazine – August 2012 – Baviaanskloof World Heritage Site
My article for Leisure Wheels in August 2012 was on the Baviaanskloof, an Eastern Cape park that is one of the most diverse places on earth, and a real adventure for 4x4ers and nature lovers.
