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🐾 Sable Bull: 1, Us: 0... Until Now! Meet the sneakiest bull on the property. Look at that magnificent boy: jet-black coat, horns that sweep back like scimitars, and that thick bush wrapped around him like a curtain. That bush was his hiding place for two whole years. The Chase We only ever got glimpses of him, and then he'd melt back into the thickets. We hired the helicopter. Multiple times.Every single time, he vanished. Our bet for this attempt? Another long, frustrating

The Flood Left More Than Mud Behind: Meeting Our New Neighbour on the Selati There’s a bridge on the road into camp that still hasn’t forgotten January’s floods. Months later, the water still creeps up over the edges of it every time the Selati River swells — a quiet, muddy reminder of just how much rain came down, and how much the river rearranged while it was at it. Because floods don’t just take. They also build. Where there used to be a clean, narrow channel, the January

A Sub-Adult Hyena's Morning Standoff at Tsunamoon A curious sub-adult hyena There's a particular kind of silence that settles over the bushveld just after sunrise — the light still soft and gold, the air cool, the reserve holding its breath before the day's heat sets in. It was in this stillness, on the dirt road cutting through Tsunamoon, that we found ourselves face to face with one of the bush's most misunderstood residents: a curious sub-adult spotted hyena. An Unexpected