The Call of Camdeboo

Dark clouds rolled in rapidly over the mountains as an angry wind whipped the ancient landscape. Across the valley, a Cape mountain zebra brayed, and a chacma baboon barked sharply in alarm as it watched a young male lion on a track below.

I looked out over the plains, and watched the sun colour the clouds purple and orange as it sank. In all my wanderings across this great continent of Africa, seldom had I experienced the rugged beauty I was witnessing now from my rocky lookout over the almost prehistoric landscape of the 14 000-hectare Mount Camdeboo Private Game Reserve,