It’s finally here! We’ve received the first 30 printed copies of The Tracker Mentoring Manual for Course 1 – Introduction to Tracking in Southern Africa from our publishers in Cape Town. Of course, as with most publications, we always find little errors to fix, but overall we are pretty pleased. It’s a little different from …
The area where our camp, Ngala Training Camp, is, is in the Balule Private Nature Reserve, which is an area that is open to the vast spaces of the Kruger, with a free flow and animals to and from. Last month, one of our students from Jamestown, Rhode Island, in the USA, sent us $20 …
From: The Tracker Mentoring Manual, Course 1 – Introduction to Tracking in Southern Africa An example: Daily Routine 2 – Practice being curious! Here’s a link to a video on our YouTube channel that we took of a Spotted Sandveld Lizard (Nucras intertexta) digging a burrow just outside our tent in the Balule. It’s a …
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This is a classic Cape Buffalo dung pile. They look like large pellets, folded into each other and sometimes just a large “plop.” They resemble the dung of domestic cows (or domestic cow dung resembles their dung). Similar species: On occasion, we have seen very atypical waterbuck and giraffe scats that resemble this, but the …
Feedback on our first online course – An Introduction to Tracking We’ve had some fantastic posts in the Private Facebook group by our new students, and some wonderful feedback. We have students from the UK, The USA, South Africa, Tanzania, Australia, Germany… it’s a truly international crowd! We asked “How are you finding the course …