The mood on campus for the week has been both tense and feverishly ‘busy’. Apart from the last few remaining Advanced Rifle Handling...

There are so many variables in field guiding, previously known as a game ranging or game ranger, and possibly the biggest of these is...

Field guiding is far more about people than animals. You may spend ten hours a day looking at four-legged animals, but you will spend between fifteen to eighteen hours daily with the two-legged ones. There are a few professions where you spend so much time with the same people. On any kind of safari, you are with your clients almost every waking hour, which is normally from dawn till around ten at night. Game drive You will be asked so many times “you must hate doing this eve

A past Bushwise student and recipient of the Annual Bushwise Scholarship Thabisani Buthelezi (Ernest), now works at the Iconic Mala Mala...

A 4am start for the first day of the start of my student life as a field guide-my first practical drive. I start off with the preliminary...

In the blink of an eye the first semester is over! We have learned a lot and already made good friends for life. We had some amazing...

Before I give my opinion on this, let us just have a brief look at what field guiding actually is all about. You have probably seen those...

You have just left your family and friends behind, even potentially relocated to South Africa, to live and breathe the intensive six...

Quality of life A field guide will never be rich in the financial sense of the word but in terms of life enrichment, there is no better...

In the competitive industry of field guiding and an endless variety of amazing establishments claiming to be the best and offer the best...