Site guide (game drives)

site guiding is really great and you learn a lot from doing things in the bush and getting to know your trees ,grass,insects and birds .You also learn how to do game drives and how to talk to the guests on the drive and what you have to say on the drive about all the different things and all the animals that you encounter while on the drive ... here at Sondela we have a lot off different animals to see while you are on the drive like :

• 11 Buck species -like 

1. Nyala
2. impala
3. kudu 
4. eland 
5. red hartebeest 
6. duiker
7. gems buck
8. water buck
9. blou wilde beest
10. bless buck
11. steenbuck

We also have other animals like

• Warthog
• giraffe
• zebra
• black back jackal
• carecol (rooi kat)
• serval (tier bos kat)
• aardwolf
• aardvark 
• porcupine

it is a very interesting to see all of the animals and you learn a lot also by looking at the animals closer !!
it is really great to learn all the things about the environment and all off the other things .. and it is nice to do game drives  with a lot of different people because each time that you go with other people you learn more and it is getting easier the more you do it ..every drive also has its own good and bad things and you cannot always see everything that you want to see !and you have to deal with different types off guests ..

Site guide Day 3

12 May 2011

This morning i went on a  one and a half hour walking trail with one of the guides at Sondela
it was a really nice walking trail and i really learned a lot from the guide like the different types of trees -

• sekelbos,
• deer mekaar bos 
• acia tree - umbrella thorn tree (hak en steek boom)
• buffalo thorn (blink blaar wag n bietjie )
• scented pod (lekker ryk peel)

different types of spoor like

• porcupine 
• aardvark
• kudu
• Zebra
• carecol (rooikat) 

and also dung from a few animals ..it was a great hiking trail and learn a lot from the guide !!
also learned new things about the aardvark and how he gets its food,and how deep he can dig ...it was nice to go on the trail and learn new things

Site guide day 2

11 May 2011

this morning we went  to class to already do the following topic Birds
It was very interesting to learn all about the different birds and the bill shapes
and the habitat of all the birds..and where the bird are mostly from like - what region or province etc..We also had to do a slide show on birds that we know best .we
had to choose 5 birds and talk about them !...i learned a lot of things about birds i didn't know 
We also wrote a test on birds the following day !!

Site guide

10 May 2011

The first day of our site guide course begins today , and i am looking forward to learning new things.
This morning we went to do a virtual game drive ( Practice game drive ) at the academy where we had to choose a few animals and talk about them like you  were on a real game drive and tell all the interesting facts you know  of the animals !!..after that we went to class to learn more about mammals and things like - they're habitat
and the food they eat ,is it a browser or a graser . we also wrote a test the following day on mammals