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Close Enounter with a White Rhino on foot
10th Jun 2020 Steven Oosthuizen 6 Comments

Close Encounters of the Rhino kind…

When I was up in Letaba during my student year, I didn’t encounter many rhinos on foot, as the populations there were still relatively small. If you wanted to see rhino you had to follow their…

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Not the Dunlop Elephant
13th May 2020 Steven Oosthuizen 23 Comments

Dunlop, the Elephant with a Tyre around his foot.

After completing my student year in Letaba and working at Olifants camp for three months, I was offered a longer contract at Berg en Dal to do day walks and activities in 2003. Moving to Berg…

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Elephants want to break in!
22nd Apr 202015th Nov 2020 Steven Oosthuizen 18 Comments

On Lock-Down inside Kruger National Park – Day 27

So while I was waiting for our president’s speech last night about the COVID-19 situation in South Africa (hoping that the lock-down would not be extended again), I heard some wire strands breaking at the back…

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Buffalo herd
9th Feb 20209th Feb 2020 Steven Oosthuizen 13 Comments

Stampede! When lions take down a buffalo in the living quarters.

In my early years in Kruger after a brief contract at Olifants camp I moved down to Berg en Dal to do the day walks from the camp. It was great – a completely new area to…

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