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July Newsletter

11 August 2010

Elephant Calf
Photo: Louis Marais

We are now in August and can already feel the temperatures rising as spring approaches. Migratory birds such as the lesser-striped swallow and Wahlbergs eagle are returning to the area and by the end of the month the knob thorn acacias will be in flower.
Since the sad events of the last newsletter, Spain won the first African world cup and there has been plenty of action here in the bush and our visitors have been rewarded with some fantastic sightings.

There has been...

LATEST LODGE NEWS

03 August 2010

Elephant Bulls at Idube
Photo: Louis Marais

Winter hit us hard this year, but amazingly did not last too long, invariably though, by saying this, I am cursing us, and we are sure to feel the full wrath of icy winds over the coming few days. Those that have visited us in winter before, can attest to the fact that there are marked temperature changes between the hours that the sun is above the horizon, and when it is below the horizon. Winter abated to a degree from the middle of the month, but knowing that August is now...

June Newsletter - A Tribute to Makubela

12 July 2010

Makubela
Photo: Jean Francois Poudron

We now are in July, the coldest month, and the month of the FIFA World Cup Final. Over the past few weeks the lodge has been inundated with football fans eager to experience the uniqueness that is the African bush in-between games.
Luckily for our World Cup visitors the past few weeks of sightings have been as exciting (if not sometimes more exciting) as the tournament has! There were rhinos fighting, elephants playing, 2 different male cheetah were seen, the big buffalo herd...

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