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Carpenters, Honey, Mopane and the Bee Whisperer

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Bees are extremely important in the environment and for that reason you need more than one kind to do the job! We are in the fortunate position to have several thriving bee species at Royal Jozini. CARPENTER BEES Carpenter bees are a larger species and are often mistaken for a bumble bee because of their

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Trumpets, rumbles and fatty foot pads

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HOW ELEPHANTS “TALK” TO ONE ANOTHER Like all highly social mammals, elephants have a well-developed system of communicating with one another. In addition to possessing large ears for acute hearing (and cooling their blood) and prehensile trunks for smelling, and gathering food, these giants communicate by using all their senses including sound, sight, touch and

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6 Tips for some great wildlife photos

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Did you capture it? So often when we go for a game drive, by the time I have my camera set up, or my cell phone switched on, that magnificent kudu bull staring straight at us, has moved off and all there is to see is his rump, half hidden by bushes. Or the magnificent

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Boating, fishing and Lake Jozini

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Going on a boat cruise on Lake Jozini can have its challenges – whether to see if you can spot some elephants or to go tiger fishing.   Sometimes, Lake Jozini, as Pongolapoort Dam is known as in Eswatini, can be flat, smooth and like a mirror.  Other times, the wind can blow gently and a

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Knob Thorns at Royal Jozini

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TREES AT ROYAL JOZINI : THE KNOB THORN We are heading towards the end of August and the bush at Royal Jozini is covered in shades of beige & brown  –  the trees look stark & bare –  except for one tree, the Knob Thorn. Knob Thorns flower between the months of August to September

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Your health and the bush!

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When you think about going into the bush, do your thoughts turn to creepy crawlies, thoughts that you will be bored as there will be nothing to do, or hectic hiking trails and roughing it and that it will all be really stressful and bad for your health? Think again!  Firstly, a trip into nature

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Grass !

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Royal Jozini Grasslands – nature’s treasure. When you think of grass, do you groan inside as you think of having to mow that unruly lawn in your backyard? Grab your mental remote, switch off that ‘home channel’ and spend a moment with us, poring over the sheer wonder of earth’s miracle cover: grass! Did you

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Lake Jozini at February 2021

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Kwazulu-Natal Provincial State of Dams on 2021-02-08 # Means latest available data FSC is full storage capacity in million cubic meters Dam River Photo Indicators FSC This Week Last Week Last Year Albert Falls Dam Mgeni River Photo Indicators 288.2 44.4 41.3 32.6 Bivane dam Bivane River Photo Indicators 114.1 103.0 87.9 90.5 Craigie Burn

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Covid-19 lockdown life at Royal Jozini

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So what has lockdown been like at Royal Jozini? Well first of all, all but most essential staff went home from Royal Jozini and that just left the security and game rangers here – with just 3 of the lodges occupied by their owners – so there were 5 of us, one live-in housekeeper and

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More about Lake Jozini

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Lake Jozini Information The Pongolapoort Dam, which stretches northwards into Swaziland is surrounded by Royal Jozini Private Game Reserve and is known as “Lake Jozini”.  The game reserve gate is just 9kms from the border of South Africa in the Kingdom of eSwatini, formerly known as Swaziland. King Mswati III of Swaziland changed the name

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