We are glad to announce that our wormery has finally made its first “worm wee”! Normally it will take between 3-4 weeks to see your worms producing first “worm wee”. But our worms decided they need to take much longer- up to 2 months longer. But finally the marvellous wee is here. We will now…
The past week the game viewing has been up and down. Last weekend we didn’t see much game. We had some great elephant sightings and rhino sightings but as for lion and leopard they kept giving us the slip. Their tracks were all over the reserve but we just couldn’t find them anywhere. …
Over the next month we will often have guest coming to us big eyed and excited asking if there is a lion or predator close as they heard a weird roar like sound. If there is no lions around there is a simple explanation for this. It is that time of the year where the…
People often do not know which of the two rhinos they are looking at when out on game drive. It is quite easy to distinguish between the White or Black Rhinoceros. Both the white and the black Rhino are herbivores. But the Black Rhinoceros is a browser and the white Rhinoceros is a grazer…
After a very successful morning game drive, we were doubtful the afternoon game drive could be as successful. But just as nature goes it surprised us yet again. We got a call on the radio that the same 3 young male lion we saw earlier that morning, were still having a “snooze” close to one…
The last two nights it has been impossible to get a good nights rest due to the wildlife making so much noise. Monday night we got surprised at 11:30 when we had an unexpected visitor in our garden. A big elephant bull. That mysteriously came in somewhere. He didn’t cause any havoc but after several…
Elouise & Ian de Weerd (Lodge Managers) and the owners of Buffalo Thorn Lodge have long dreamt of starting their own little wormery and recycling the kitchen/garden waste at Buffalo Thorn Lodge. After months of looking for the perfect wormery we came across a place called Wizzard worms. At long last the wormery was ordered…
What a week of game viewing it was!!! WOW!! We had the Doig Family (over the weekend) and four lovely ladies (during the week) staying at the lodge. Each and everyone got to enjoy a little magic and tranquillity of the bush with all its animals. Over the weekend we saw rhino, lions…lions..and more lions….
On Tuesday morning game drive started out very quite . With only birds and plains game sightings. Just before coffee stop we managed to see a journey of giraffes with a tiny little baby giraffe. After coffee we slowly made our way back to the lodge through the wilderness and passed the pannetjies, desperately looking for some elephants!!! Just…