Reflections Some excerpts of comments from the Mid Kent College student group on their way to the airport after leaving Umkhumbi Lodge. “It was sad leaving everyone at the lodge knowing that it was the last time we would drive down the bumpy track past the Nyala. As we travel back to the airport to […]
Mid Kent College – Day 10
After a nice hot day at Kosi Bay yesterday, we woke up to a lovely rainy morning! We had a quick breakfast, then filed into the van for the trip back to the lodge. Almost as soon as we returned we all jumped back in and drove into the bush to dig some pit traps. […]
Mid Kent College Animal Care Course – South Africa 2013 – Day 9
Day 11 We woke up early to have breakfast at 7.30am as we were leaving at 8.30am for the elephant interaction it took us an hour to get there which wasn’t that bad. Whilst driving to the elephant interaction we passed a game reserve where along the fence line we saw a leopard shading itself […]
Mid Kent College Animal Care Course South Africa – Day 8
After breakfast we met Dylan who is the manager of Bhejane Nature Training Centre. He explained to us what type of courses the centre runs and the career opportunities after finishing the course. Afterwards we drove to Kosi Bay. After getting there we got shown to our accommodation and went over to a nearby homestead. […]
Mid Kent College Animal Care Course 2013 – Day 7
(Pictures to follow soon!) A really early morning this morning! We left at 5:30am to go on a game drive in one of the oldest reserves in South Africa. It took around half an hour to reach the park, it is quite cold in a safari vehicle on the open road, but we soon warmed […]
Mid Kent College Animal Care Course 2013 – Day 6
Snake talk: today Anton gave us a snake talk, he spoke about the different types of damage that they can do such as neurological (affecting the nervous system). The different types of venom are called Hemotoxic, Neurotoxic and Cytotoxic (which burns and practically dissolves muscle and tissue, we saw a picture…). If we wanted to […]
Mid Kent College Animal Care Course 2013 – Day 4
First thing this morning we went looking along Victors fence line looking for holes in the fence this is because people could get in to set snares or animals could escape which you really don’t want to happen in a Wildlife Sanctuary! Usually the holes are made by warthogs digging or the antelope trying to […]
Nightwatch Diary
On their wilderness trails, all of our students have to take their turn at nightwatch. For some this is scary, for others tedious but for most people – exciting. Canterbury Gold DofE Award 2013 decided that a handing over ceremony of the nightwatch diary should happen at every shift change complete with a solemn oath […]
Warthog Dissection
We started by carrying the old warthog to the dissection site, where we promptly hung the pig from the tendons in its legs to a couple of hooks on a tree to give us a safe stable carcass to work with. Tommy sliced the neck with a very sharp knife, he then offered to one […]
Hluhluwe-Imfolozi Game Reserve
The first thing we heard in the morning was a massive BANG on the side of our tent and Tommy’s beautiful voice “good morning my sleeping beauties” we mumbled a response and started our ridiculously early day. Clambering into massive game drive vehicles after layering up like onions. After boarding ‘the fun bus’ we sped […]
