The Mexican Horse Thief: 3 Sunrise- Sunsets Series

The Mexican Horse Thief: 3 Sunrise- Sunsets Series: As I was doing permanent night Ops in a Rhino Anti Poaching Unit I saw a LOT of sunrise and  sunsets. Some were spectacular and I took too ...

2 Sunrise- Sunsets Series

As I was doing permanent night Ops in a Rhino Anti Poaching Unit I saw a LOT of sunrise and  sunsets. Some were spectacular and I took too many photographs for just one post. So,  thought I would share them “one a day” with you.

I am also a writer, but have yet to write The Chronicles of this chapter of my life. You can however find my very first written Chronicles here; they took place, in another lifetime, many years ago.

The Chronicles of the Mexican Horse Thief I – Angola.

The Mexican Horse Thief: 1 Sunrise- Sunsets Series

The Mexican Horse Thief: 1 Sunrise- Sunsets Series: As I was doing permanent night Ops in a Rhino Anti Poaching Unit I saw a LOT of sunrise and  sunsets. Some were spectacular and I took too ...

The Mexican Horse Thief: ScorpionsScorpions are predatory arachnids of the ...

The Mexican Horse Thief: ScorpionsScorpions are predatory arachnids of the ...: Scorpions Scorpions are predatory arachnids of the order Scorpiones . They have eight legs and are easily recognized by the pair of gr...

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Barberton and Daisies

Barberton. I spent a lot of time in that small town many, many years ago, visiting my Grandfather who worked on the mines.  Barberton is an interesting town from a historical point of view. As an adult I returned to that town often.

The flower is named after the town, obviously, but here are a few other interesting things about Barberton. The main attraction was…..Gold!

This is what put Barberton on the map.  James Murray and Ingram James first discovered gold in this area in 1882, pegging claims along the Noordkaap River. Soon the gold rush began, and eventually over 350 claims were pegged in the hills surrounding Barberton – including a sizeable gold nugget weighing 1.65kgs. The discovery of gold along the Greenstone Belt is the reason Barberton exists today.
In 1990 I joined a friend of mine that had just bought the Bougainvillea Hotel , renaming it, Digger’s Retreat, in the Noordkaap area.  I was taught how to pan for gold and took tourists panning for a few months. The owner of the hotel had a claim, so could deal in raw gold.

The JSE was not the first stock exchange in the Transvaal , it was in Barberton around 1885. They are still taking gold out of the New Consort mine more than a hundred years later.
But I digress, I started this article to show you some photographs of Barberton Daisies!

1. jamesonii was first described by Robert Jameson in 1889 while exploring the Barberton area in the Lowveld region of Mpumalanga Province, South Africa.

The scientific name is Gerbera jamesonii, in the veldt the are as you see them in my photos, red and single petals. I see that the horticulturist have cultivated  out a few varieties different colours  and more petals. 


As you can see, I am not an expert at flora, but I hope you enjoy the photos.

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The Mexican Horse Thief: The Blue Waxbill

The Mexican Horse Thief: The Blue Waxbill: The blue waxbill ( Uraeginthus angolensis ), also called blue-breasted cordon-bleu , is a common species of estrildid finch found in Sout...

Praying Mantis

Wiki tells me that there are over 2,400 species of  Praying Mantis. That is quite a lot. The thing I think that the Praying Mantis is most well known for is, that the female eats the male while they are mating. Apparently this happens often when they are kept in captivity and much less when out in the wild.
Perhaps there is a lesson here for us?
Anyway, here are a few photographs I have taken of these fascinating little creatures.

Rhino Wars

96 unanswered questions for Selomie Maritz of Palala Rhino Sanctuary and Ubumanzi Game Reserve and Lodge

Taken from the notes of, If you have been banned from Palala Rhino Sanctuary page , where you may follow discussions pertaining to this problem. I found the questions number 70 interesting. She did try and  I know why too.

70. Is it true that you have made several posts around Facebook calling for Wayne Bisset to be “taken out”? If so, why did you do it? Do you acknowledge that this is considered a death threat?

Questions pertaining to your sale of a rhino to alleged rhino poaching kingpin, Dawie Groenewald:

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Rhino Wars -How to end the Rhino Poaching

This is why I believe the animals are doomed.

 

The biggest problem by far is the general public and their naïve view and gullibility.  The next problem is the organizations that are supposedly doing something about it. Not all but it would seem a fair amount. The third would be corrupt officials.

The general public’s Rah Rahing about a few scraggly poaches been shot and killed is pathetic and damaging. It leads to the misconception that something is actually been achieved. Kak! There are hundreds of poor men, that can track and fire an AK47 to replace the dead ones. Furthermore I do believe that these dead poaches are the sacrificial offerings for the public. Same as a percentage drug mules are snitched by the very people that hire them. Diversion tactics, and Joe Public gets all happy.

The worst is that the very people that are suppose to be protecting the animals, and raising HUGE sums of money for this, have been exposed as some of the bloody ring leaders of Rhino poaching! It has come to not only mine, but a well known Kenyan conservationist as well, that the anti poaching organizations seem to NOT be taking the volunteers that can do the job. I wonder why?

I will not say anything about the third lot. Read about corruption in South Africa for yourself.

What should be done.

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