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Traveling Africa: Load Shedding in the Bush
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Load Shedding in the Bush. We arrived at our bed and breakfast in Cape Town on June 4. After twenty four hours of travel. The manager – during her tour of the beach front guest house – pointed out the candles and matches provided in case of load shedding. Having friends in South Africa and following many South African social media sites I'd heard of load shedding which in. A last-resort measure by the power company used to avoid a total blackout of their power system. The house manager's note at our B&B.
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Traveling Africa: Lions, Rhino and Wildebeest giving birth, oh my!
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Lions, Rhino and Wildebeest giving birth, oh my! Berg-en-Dal Camp – Guest House #35. I checked into camp the night before after seeing three of the big five on the drive from Malelane gate to Berg-aen-Dal camp which is not very far at all. I already knew it was going to be another amazing journey to Kruger National park; one of my favorite places on Earth. What a pleasure it was to be back. Mom Wildebeest and Her Newborn Calf. I drove only another mile or so when I came upon white rhino; my second sighti...
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Traveling Africa: My Roommate in Tent Forty; Mr. Black Mamba!
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My Roommate in Tent Forty; Mr. Black Mamba! Annually Michael and I travel to Africa where some highly venomous snakes reside which I have a healthy respect for. Both of those thoughts may be a bit of an exaggeration but there are - without question - killer snakes in Africa. Tent #40 on the corner of the fenced camp. This snake can reach speeds of twelve miles per hour, climb very fast and lift its head off of the ground up to four feet high to strike. Its bite can easily kill a human. Not three minutes ...
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Traveling Africa: Last Day Dogs - Wild Dogs that is!
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Last Day Dogs - Wild Dogs that is! In the three weeks we’d been in Kruger we saw more amazing animals than we could have asked for. The only thing – and it was a selfish thought - still on our list for our last day in the park as we left Olifants camp that early November morning in 2013 was wild dog; the second rarest predator in all of Africa. Right out of the camp we saw a leopard jump down from a tree where he had a dead impala stashed. If it’s anything else we keep going.”. The grass was high. An hou...
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Traveling Africa: Kruger Bedfellows; four feet, two wings and more!
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Kruger Bedfellows; four feet, two wings and more! The dead bat found in Michaels' shoe. In one of the amazing Punda Maria fixed tents we slept like babies until at some point in the night I heard a sound. When in Africa in any tent or accommodation a sound in the night can be one of many things. I pride myself in being able to identify much of these sounds; a baboon bark, a bush baby scream, hyena howl, lion grunt and more. This sound, however, was none of those. I am sure he thought I was being paranoid.
