Interview with a ranger: Frances Hannah
Frances Hannah is our head ranger here at Rhino River Lodge. We love Frances for her sharp sense of humour and calm presence. Frances may be a ranger by trade but she is one of the best writers we know and writes some of the best bush stories in the business. Frances shared a little […]
Instagram Photo Competition Results
To celebrate the launch of our new Instagram account we ran a photo competition for all of our previous clients and the results were pretty spectacular. Congratulations to Ashleigh Behrens @ashstormbehrens whose beautiful image of two lions won her a one night stay for two people. Making our decision wasn’t easy and we wanted to […]
Meet a guide at Rhino River Lodge
The life of a safari lodge ranger is one ruled by adventure, excitement and that little dose of danger that comes with the bush-life package. It sounds exhilarating to any of us with a love for the African wilderness and a hint of khaki-fever. Rhino River Lodge’s ranger, Kyle Naude, shares a little taste of […]
A Date with Rhino River Lodge’s Wilderness
“I’m on a date with the wilderness!” This is what I kept thinking to myself from each sunrise to sunset during my two night stay at Rhino River Lodge. I was cuddled by mountains that made for the most stunning photo backdrops and defrosted by sunrises and hot chocolates as I patiently watched Mother Nature […]
King of the Jungle
Stereotypes are way too simple, you know: black rhino are shy and retiring, the lion is the king of the jungle … ranger Frances Hannah explains that what you expect is not always what you get. I was approaching a block of open plane grassland, the male lion and lioness were well hidden in the […]
Meet the cubs …
Meeting your offspring for the first time can be quite an event – even if you are a lion, as our ranger Frances Hannah explains. We found the three big brothers slumped lazily by the dam. It was early morning and the air was still so I didn’t expect much from these lazy lumps of […]
Our Guests Love Our Lions
Guests love lions. They love to look at them, photograph them, and tell everyone how close they got to them. Guests love lions. Except possibly the guests from this weekend. New to game reserves, the couple were happy to have ranger Frances take them reasonably close to a male who was relaxing. However the male woke […]
Supper Snacks
On the sundowner drive yesterday we caught up with our three “big boys”, the male lions. I had four guests in the car, and as the first fellow ambled along the clicking of camera shutters increased markedly. Lion #1 was followed by # 2 and a little later by #3, and they were quite content […]
2 Stunning Discoveries by Institute of Biomimicry
The Institute of Bio mimicry looks for answers to our day to day problems in the natural world and intends to turn them into easy solutions. 1) Ever wondered why zebras have black and white stripes? The zebra’s stripes have more than one function. One function that can be mimicked is their cooling mechanism. The […]
The BIG 5… We have them!
On the 1st of July 2011, Zululand Rhino Reserve officially became a Big 5 reserve with the introduction of 3 male lions. An historical day for conservation, returning lions to an area that they previously inhabited. The 3 young males have been in a boma at Phinda Game Reserve for the last couple of weeks, […]