TrailBooth – Letters from the Lowveld
Letters from the Lowveld – stories of the Booth Family's move from KZN to Kampersrus, Limpopo.
The last full day of this leg, what an introduction it had been. We had not seen a lot of game, but we had been introduced to a way of being in the bush that we had never experienced before. Something had enveloped me and us that we had never felt before. A mental shift…
It’s been a little while since I have written an entry in this diary, so I will aim to be consistent and tell, the story of my Kruger Trail experience. Day 4 of leg 1 was the first day we arrived at camp early enough to explore our surroundings a little bit. This would prove…
15 May 2019 It was on this day that we saw and felt another side to the Kruger. Deep in the hills of the eastern Soutpansberg, we awoke in our riverbed campsite, had a coffee, packed our backpacks and headed south along the drainage lines winding our way through granite domes. It was still quite…
14 May 2019 Overnight we heard animals come and go from the trickle of water we had collected ours from. The buffalo were the most obvious with their hooves clancking over the rocks when a herd moved in or out.It was my birthday and Michelle produced a cake for me out of her tiny bag….
13 May 2019 I’ve read a few accounts recently and have really enjoyed reading the stories and experiences of The Kruger Trail. So I will share mine, day by day over a period of time. That’s if I can remember each day, they seem to blur, but I hope the photo albums we collected will…
In August I laughed at my brother-in-law when he realised he would be in the middle of Kruger, without comms, for the World Cup final. Then I accepted a booking to walk Pafuri over the same weekend. When I realised, I had a moment of regret, thinking what if the Boks make the final? I…
People have become disconnected from nature- that’s a fact that is undisputable, it shows every day, everywhere, from the street corner to social media. The number of people in the world who remain connected to nature is fewer and fewer, and in general they live with very little monetary wealth. It’s what keeps them connected,…
I woke in my tent at @siyafundawildlife at 1am yesterday morning and already in my mind was that I had left my boots outside and would a hyena come along and drag them off into the bush for a good chew. So I got up, walked across the camp to collect them and happy to…