tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23281116854727711462024-03-05T19:12:01.981-08:00Ghost Mountain Inn | Ranger DiariesDiscover the Mkuze and Hluhluwe Game reserves and other natural wonders of Zululand and the Elephant Coast in KwaZulu Natal, South Africa. Join us for a boat cruise or tiger fishing on Lake Jozini or a Zulu cultural safari in the Lebombo Mountains. The Ghost Mountain Inn is the ideal base to discover these and other areas including, St. Lucia, Isimangaliso, Sodwana, Kosi Bay, Ndumu, Tembe Elephant Park as well as Swaziland and Mozambique.Ghost Mountain Innhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12669294230702036684noreply@blogger.comBlogger16125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2328111685472771146.post-921948495842555352013-05-05T02:46:00.000-07:002013-05-05T02:51:36.680-07:00Saving It For The Next Generation<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">With our belief that if one is saving nature and its marvels
for the next generation the next generation must know what we are saving, we
chose a quiet day and took some five and six year olds from a local pre-school
out for a game drive in Mkhuze.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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I was amazed at the discipline as they then lined up to go to the restrooms in orderly
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</span>Then it was off to the Game reserve to see animals they had
never seen before – along the way through the community there was much hilarity
as dogs, chickens, goats, cows and donkeys were called to with very lifelike
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Haaaw!!!</div>
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Watching Rhino</div>
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Zebra waiting their turn</div>
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highlights for most were the slippery floors (newly oiled) in the hide and the
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Jeanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12621071729802017150noreply@blogger.com0Mkhuze Game Reserve, South Africa-27.591766816239296 32.063057117187554-27.704353316239295 31.901695617187553 -27.479180316239297 32.224418617187553tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2328111685472771146.post-37827429551121267852012-09-10T05:18:00.002-07:002012-09-10T05:32:26.372-07:00Are Cold, Grey, Rainy Days Worthwhile<br />
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<span style="color: #20124d;">Towards the end of the drive we came across some baboons behaving strangely. The females were disappearing with the young, the big male where in a guarding stance and some of the young males giving a strange bark. Their behaviour was one of concern but not fear as with the presence of most predators. I stopped to look around and explained that the behaviour was indicative of something wrong but I was not sure what. I could not see anything and drove on slowly looking around. Suddenly a wild dog appeared in the road ahead of us to be joined a little later by the rest of a small pack.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Jeanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12621071729802017150noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2328111685472771146.post-70399462161219289722012-06-29T07:01:00.002-07:002012-06-29T07:42:23.893-07:00Rhino Surprise<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="color: black;">In the few weeks that Adam has worked for us one of the things that he mentioned a few times was the desire to do some game capture and to see Black Rhino so When Wildlands trust hired a game drive vehicle and guide to drive for the for two days I decided to reward him for the hard work over the last month by giving him two more long hard days. I never mentioned darting black rhino – only that he had to be at the gate early and drive for the people (they would supply a guide who knew the reserve) all day for two days and to take lunch with as there would be no break for him (I get cruel that way). <o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><o:p><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;"> </span></o:p></span><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">What seemed to me and to be just a full day game drive safari for the day, out on a reserve I’ve never been to, turned out to be a lifetime experience. Only once I got back to Ghost Mountain did I find out that Jean set me up but what a setup it was.<o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="color: black;">In the corner a box caught my eye and on closer inspection found medium sized tracking collars and tracking equipment, perfect size for what seemed suitable for a cat or a wild dog. What on earth are they going to find?<o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="color: black;">I finally asked some Wildlands trust personnel and it was rhino they were going after.<o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="color: black;">After everyone finished a full English breakfast it was all systems go! The Ezemvelo pilot fired up the light weighted game capture chopper and set off to locate our first rhino.<o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="color: black;">Finally I understood what I was there for and that I was responsible for driving with our cruiser to where they dart the rhinos from the helicopter and race into the bush with the vets, cameraman and volunteers from Wildlands.<o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="color: black;">Basically, Wildlands and Wildlife act received funds to track, tranquilise, touch and test tracking devices for black and white rhinos on this new piece of land. After reading a wildlands magazine lying around the lodge, I finally understood the whole purpose of this operation and how the reserve came to be and how Wildlands are working with the Nkosi of the Gumbi community to protect and run a reserve just outside Mkuze.<o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="color: black;">Even though I was just the driver I was very much involved with driving to the rhinos, taking loads of 'Kodak moment' photographs, assisting with bringing equipment to the vets and wildlife act team who rush out ahead into the bush to locate the hallucinating animal, settle it down carefully in a stress free position and then begin the process of fitting the tracking collars or drilling into the fragile rhino horns and fitting it with a tracking device deep inside the keratin.<o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="color: black;">That Monday morning was hectic and the time flew by and we successfully located and tagged four rhinos. Two white and the rarest of the rare - the infamous black rhino! What a magnificent creature and I didn’t hesitate to become 'touchy' with the bhejane. I don’t get to see, let alone touch a black rhino! my memory of my first wild black rhino I’ve seen dates back to when I was a laaitjie driving through Kruger National Park with my family and stumbling on the road near Letaba we found our first black rhinos. And here I am probably 10 years later, reaching out and running my fingers down the sweaty, rough and rugged rhinoceros.<o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="color: black;">Everyone was buzzing with excitement with everyone taking in the experience. <o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="color: black;">Most of the Wildlands staff had never done this in their lives before. It was truly special for them as most of them spend their lives in an office or living in a big city. As for me, I was familiar with everything going on and I humbly stood one side to watch the drama unfold.<o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="color: black;">I couldn’t help but just smile and just appreciate nature on these two days of adventure and what we are trying to achieve, were here to protect these animals, to educate, to preserve them for future generations, I was there, and I gave my contribution to conservation. I couldn’t help but think about what Bruce Bryden wrote in his book-A game ranger remembers and watch his very words become real, right before my eyes! It is so true-in the life of a game ranger you are never well-off but you do get to see things and do things no one else experiences, not in this lifetime.<o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="color: black;">I was amazed of what I am and where I am today. From surviving the polluted and overpopulated world of Shanghai to the wild, open spaces of Zululand. It’s here, where I feel at home and where I want to be and what I want to do with my life! What a privilege and experience it is to be an African and to contribute to protecting our heritage, our wildlife, our future.<o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="color: black;">After successfully tagging the rhinos with their devices, we all parted with smiles and satisfaction of a job well done. Wildlife act were amazing and extremely professional, Ezemevelo-the vets were in their element and the pilot was outstanding, some of the craziest and most skilled flying I have ever seen; and Wildlands trust for their contribution and education and their vision for the future.<o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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<br />Jeanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12621071729802017150noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2328111685472771146.post-50557884449535707822012-06-07T00:00:00.000-07:002012-06-08T01:39:44.861-07:00Spurwing Butterfly<br />
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They gather in large numbers on the shores of the lake and many of them moult.
This results in flocks of geese either running along the shore to get away from
anything that makes them nervous or else they take to the water with an
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<span style="color: black;"> This makes everybody nervous</span><br />
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<span style="color: black;"> And this makes Adam nervous</span><br />
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<span id="goog_742122475"></span><span id="goog_742122476"></span>Jeanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12621071729802017150noreply@blogger.com0lake Jozini-27.479034752500656 31.9647216796875-27.930151752500656 31.3330076796875 -27.027917752500656 32.5964356796875tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2328111685472771146.post-92120846097868555922012-06-03T21:55:00.000-07:002012-06-03T21:55:46.235-07:00Elephant Creche<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px; text-align: left;">Like small children everywhere the elephant herd’s crèche is causing chaos and mayhem at every opportunity on Lake Jozini</span><br />
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Adam and I took two guests who had never been in an African Nature Reserve to Mkhuze for their first drive. kuMasinga hide delivered an education in what happens when water runs low (take note humanity) once again.</div>
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<span class=""></span></div>Ghost Mountain Innhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12669294230702036684noreply@blogger.com0Mkhuze Game Reserve, South Africa-27.649472352561862 32.22564697265625-27.76199585256186 32.067718472656253 -27.536948852561864 32.383575472656247tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2328111685472771146.post-56515644058684935052012-05-22T10:00:00.000-07:002012-06-28T11:29:48.141-07:00Clash of the Titans<span style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 115%;">kuMasinga hide, in the Mkhuze Game Reserve is often spectacular on winter mornings particularly between around 9h00 and 13h00 which seems to be when everything comes down to drink. This time the water was low and there was a very impatient queue. As size rules the rhinos were hogging it all however the female, her youngster and his young friend were obviously in charge. The big bull was on the edges but every time he tried to get close the female roared at him and he backed off only to take his pent-up aggression out on the poor wildebeest, zebra, warthog , impala and nyala that had the misfortune to be close (at one stage he sent a wildebeest flying through the air). Then it got interesting – another bull approached the waterhole resulting scuffle was as impressive. The sight of these two stirring up dust and causing general pandemonium was stunning but the roaring, squealing and clash of horns cannot be described adequately.</span><br />
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</tbody></table>Jeanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12621071729802017150noreply@blogger.com0kuMasinga Hide-27.68839232178566 32.2283935546875-28.138571321785658 31.5966795546875 -27.238213321785661 32.8601075546875tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2328111685472771146.post-72293491294386351732012-05-19T02:09:00.000-07:002012-05-24T08:04:54.910-07:00Weddings: The Lighter Side<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">I thought I would give those of you thinking of getting married a taste of what the photographer is going to put you through and what they will go through to get that perfect shot. Congratulations to Loise and Rhett who got married here this weekend. I hope the photographs were worth every minute </span></div>
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<br />Ghost Mountain Innhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12669294230702036684noreply@blogger.com0Lake Jozini, KZN, South Africa-27.463194986605128 31.977081298828125-27.575909486605127 31.819152798828124 -27.350480486605129 32.135009798828122tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2328111685472771146.post-32162946610271496452012-05-01T10:43:00.000-07:002012-05-17T11:25:15.596-07:00Sunset in Africa<div id="contentArea" role="main" style="float: left; font-size: 11px; margin-right: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 20px; text-align: left; width: 493px; word-wrap: break-word;">
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</div>Ghost Mountain Innhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12669294230702036684noreply@blogger.com0Mkhuze Game Reserve, South Africa-27.660419994878637 32.23388671875-27.772919994878638 32.07595821875 -27.547919994878637 32.39181521875tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2328111685472771146.post-34250196296003929222012-04-24T00:50:00.000-07:002012-04-24T04:49:37.869-07:00Dancing Flamingos and Prancing Hippos<span style="font-family: inherit;">Two incidences stood out for me on yesterdays boat cruise
(on top of the fact that I left my camera behind as the day was dark gloomy and
threatening to rain – which held off until my guests were safely back in the hotel)
– dancing flamingos and prancing hippos.The hippo was a young one that is very curious about the
boat at the moment and sometimes follows us for quite a way before returning to
his family. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">I was gently floating down the shore with the engines off watching
a group of reedbuck on the shore when he decided to cross the lake for another
look at us. He moved off a bit after studying us for a while and then started
to jump about in the water like a puppy with a toy throwing himself out of the
water and rolling around forwards, backwards and sidewards. After few minutes
of this display of rotund grace he decided to return across the lake moving
like a porpoise in a series of rolling dives.</span><br />
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the bird contingent decided not to let the mammals carry the day away entirely
and organised a small group of greater flamingos to put on a display of stilt
walking, pink feather ruffling, wing stretching and a short flight just to end
the show. On behalf of the mammals I would like to say it was possibly a bit
over the top and showed desperation in the competition stakes. </span>Jeanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12621071729802017150noreply@blogger.com0Lake Jozini, South Africa-27.470505930696984 31.981201171875-27.583225430696984 31.823272671875 -27.357786430696983 32.139129671875tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2328111685472771146.post-23446507862190940072012-01-11T10:49:00.000-08:002012-05-17T11:22:24.989-07:00What a Clown<br />
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The first meeting I was gently floating past as he was swimming when his attention focused leaving me with that “oh no we are too close feeling”. On closer study I realised that he was focussing on something just behind the boat – a crocodile. He proceeded to storm over and spent about 10 minutes searching on top and under the water even though the poor thing was long gone.</div>
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Yesterday he was standing deep in the water watching us in with great contemplation when suddenly he seemed to collapse onto his side floating so totally relaxed that he looked dead in the water. At first I was worried and then I saw the tip of his trunk held just above the water. The second fright in one week from Khumbula.</div>
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</div>Ghost Mountain Innhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12669294230702036684noreply@blogger.com0Lake Jozini, South Africa-27.416881083923943 31.966094970703125-27.529731583923944 31.808166470703124 -27.304030583923943 32.124023470703122tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2328111685472771146.post-29994571068553113542011-12-02T05:45:00.000-08:002012-04-23T06:34:44.548-07:00Images of the Fig Forest<br />
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<span style="font-size: 11px; line-height: 1.5em;">There is no activity more calming for me than a stroll through the Fig forest in Mkhuze. Spending time in the shade this sprawling canopy listening to the myriad of sounds of birds, insects and (if you are lucky) the crash of elephants feeding is magical.</span></div>
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Mkhuze Game Reserve looks absolutely stunning at the moment. We had our first rains and the grass looks like a manicured lawn where the burns were, the bush is sprouting new shoots and everything has that new clean washed look. On top of that it is time for baby impalas – oh so cute.</div>
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Lake Jozini was definitely in a better mood this morning. Not only did the sun shine for us but I saw the elephant herd for the first time in days. We saw them as they came out of the tree line, anchored the boat and waited patiently. The wait paid of and after a while the whole herd came down to drink.</div>
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I did another tree planting on behalf of a tour group at Mtwazi the other day. The trees were so cheap I also donated some – another four fruit trees planted to give shade to an otherwise barren playground and, hopefully, fruit to generations of kids.</div>
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I said to some older boys helping me to plant “It is a pity you won’t benefit”. “No problem” was the answer “We will when we come back as teachers”. This is the spirit that makes helping the school in our little way all worthwhile.</div>
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