The world-renowned Kruger National Park is home to a vast array of South Africa’s wildlife. Every year tourists from all over the world flock to the Park to come and observe the beauty and majesty that nature has to offer. However, few know what happens behind the scenes.
Dealing with a mischievous elephant. How to outwit a troop of baboons. Surviving countless bouts of malaria. Keeping the peace between animals and people. What to do when there really is a snake in the grass...
The adventure-filled stories in this book give you a glimpse into the private life of a game ranger. Interesting, funny and sometimes downright embarrassing, PJ Nel shares some of his best memories during his more than 30-years experience as a game ranger in the Kruger Park.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR: PJ Nel, known by family and friends as Flip, was born in Johannesburg, South Africa in 1946. He found his calling as a game ranger in the Kruger National Park in 1971 and was employed there in excess of 30 years. These days he spends his retirement writing and gardening around his cottage in the Ceres Mountains of the Western Cape where he tries to persuade the wildlife not to destroy his Proteas.
This book is not his autobiography, but rather a memoir of his most embarrassing moments during his daily life in the magnificent Kruger