by Nicole Walker | Jul 24, 2018 | Antelope, Big 5, Featured Articles, General, Giraffe, Impala, Leopard, Nyala
An afternoon on Kapama is always full of excitement, even more so when you set to go out on Safari and aim to see one or two of the Big Five. During one of the afternoon game drives, we set off from River Lodge, with tracker Noel, along with six guests, from South...
by Nicole Walker | Jul 10, 2018 | dung beetle, Featured Articles, Game Drive, General, Insects, Tracker
One afternoon we left River Lodge for our afternoon safari and headed into the southern parts of the reserve to locate some of the plains game animals that are usually in big herds on Mashutu plains. Did you know Kapama has over 40 species of mammals? After about...
by Nicole Walker | Jul 4, 2018 | Featured Articles, Insects, snake
I had the urge to write about insects seen as though we recently had International insect week this past June. Normally our blog stories focus on an experience we had in the bush, and this is by no means different. Still an awesome experience with loads of Wows! and...
by Nicole Walker | Jun 26, 2018 | Aardvark, Big 5, Featured Articles, Game Drive, Hyena, Kapama River Lodge, Leopard, Tracker
It was my guests’ last night drive here on Kapama Private Game Reserve. The only one of the Big 5 they had not yet managed to see during their stay at River Lodge was the Leopard. As this was a priority for my guests and they were desperate to see one, I was...
by Nicole Walker | Jun 19, 2018 | Big 5, Featured Articles, Game Drive, Impala, Kapama River Lodge, Leopard, Tracker
I’m sure most guides would agree with me that there can be times when we really do feel the pressure on safari to meet our guest’s expectations. I had 2 wonderful guests for three nights and we had not yet spotted a leopard while out on our morning or evening...
by Nicole Walker | Jun 11, 2018 | Featured Articles, Game Drive, ranger, Tracker, Wild encounters
After experiencing great success over the past 3 days of safari, as a group, we decided to take a slower pace and watch a family of vervet monkeys as they went about their daily duties. My River Lodge guests were happy to experience everything the African bushveld was...
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