It’s 7.30 am when the first rays of sunlight peek over the dune and turn the grass golden. After heavy summer rain, I can’t even see the red sand underneath. The grass is dense and reaches to the knee.
I’m on the stoep of riverfront chalet #15 in Mata-Mata rest camp. It’s a sought-after address – right at the bottom end of the row of newer chalets, overlooking the Auob riverbed. Theoretically, if a lion were to