Today the WEangels took 36 kids from the small rural town of Dixie to Nelspruit to watch a movie and have a hamburger lunch. A small thing in our worlds, but a major memory in theirs. None of these kids have ever tasted a hamburger, seen a tarred road, been in side a mall, ridden [...]
Well the day has finally arrived. Today (25th October 2008) WildEarth and its Angels are taking the kids of Dixie to the movies. I think I have everything in place and WE are expecting it to go off smoothly. At 6.30am Rexon will pick up Herman and Simon from the gate and together they will [...]
Herman actually finished this video on Saturday, when WE blew our first inverter. But due to various issues like the loss of our Internet connection and for some reason the first time he uploaded it to YouTube it failed, he only got it up properly today.In the meantime the new, very expensive, inverter blew again!:( [...]
Well I write to you after a rather stressful night and morning trying to sort out a new inverter and understand why we keep blowing the old ones. As Graham mentioned below, Simon and Rexon are on their way to pick up a new one and all should be back to normal relatively soon. On [...]
... but WE get up again.On last night's drive, the inverter blew again! Every couple of months this seems to happen. We have no idea why it happens, but it does. When we open it up there is never any good reason for why it is not working, the fuses never blow, there is no [...]
After a huge amount of work and jumping through any number of hoops, Pete has managed to get a LIVE GPS coordinate from the Jigga and display it on a map, so that you can keep up with the exact real time location of our game drive vehicle.This seemingly simple bit of technology is the [...]
As many of you know we started a LIVE bush walk a few weeks ago. This involved Pieter Pretorius going out into the bush with Herman filming him close behind. Many of you will remember that our first walk threw up a rather exciting situation with a herd of elephants and in particular a rather [...]
Firstly I would like to apologize for not having written a Blog for a while. I am five weeks away from giving birth now and this last home stretch is very different from earlier on, as many of you will know. Exhaustion takes over and it is very hard to get everything done that you [...]
The drives are back in colour, which is really great!! Pete brought down a new video switch, while not as fancy as the last one, at least it works all the time. He also brought down a brand new digital jacket. Now what is a 'digital jacket' you might ask? Well, to be totally honest [...]
