where to find them
Following the script of an edge-of-the-seat thriller, I’m the first to arrive at the desolate gravel parking area on the unpopulated side of the Western Cape’s Franschhoek Pass. The peaks of the surrounding mountains are indiscernible against the pitch-black pre-dawn sky; the hem of the thick blanket of fog covering the valley ahead clutches at my ankles as I exit my vehicle to survey the land.
The hunt for a rare, mystical beast has brought me to this location and I’m determined this is the morning I will capture it. A chorus of guttural barks erupt from the gorge behind me and I spin on my
