Eyesore, god bless him, is Daktari’s token blind donkey. He doesn’t really know where he goes and how he gets there, but he eventually gets to where he wants to…
All of us sit on the lapa, contemplating Bullet’s fate, when Andy passes through, pick axe and shovel in hand. Like the Grim Reaper himself, Andy moves quietly behind us,…
I literally turn the corner into my rondavel and stop dead in my tracks. I don’t know whether to scream bloody murder or run back to the lapa because right…
Tonight’s moon is a full moon, a crazy moon, and here, it’s a bloodthirsty moon, one that lights up the night sky and brings too many animals to untimely deaths.…
It’s a major bondage with the kiddos this afternoon: First up, I play a round of ball with them, and after kicking the soccer ball over their heads and dashing…
Lolo gains 15 kilos at Daktari, and just to put that into perspective, here’s the standard: 1 kilo = 2.2 pounds Translation, Lolo piles on an average of 10 pounds…
On Wednesdays, the kids head to Makalali, the game reserve just a U-turn around the wire fence separating them from us. Ian mans the van and makes me eat van…
Daktari runs on a finely-tuned schedule, ushering us from activity to activity, all hour or two-hour long blocks of concentrated activities. For ten minutes the night before, my volunteer mates…
Mr.Claus courts his darling every day, getting down on bended knee, wings flapping in opposite direction, head bobbing up, down, up, down. Sometimes, we think he’s after anything that moves,…
My favorite chore is animal kitchen. For an hour, I am fingers deep in papaya, bananas, bird seed, kibbles, apples, eggs, ProNutro, carrots, cabbage, and more, slicing, dicing, stirring, prepping…
Where In The World Is Gwendo? 