Trail Log 1995-1997 - Lamar at Colorado State University

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giant kingfisher
darter (anhinga)
6 impala
2 warthogs
Reached Skukuza and rejoined Jane and Johan. End of the trail camp.
Left Skukuza, about 9.30, making for Johannesburg and a flight to Durban. Changed clothes and
repacked as best I could.
There was an impala left hanging in a tree by a leopard about half a kilometer inside the Kruger
Gate. Others had seen the leopard eating it earlier in the day, and some were waiting for it to
reappear. We saw only the dead impala. Jane and Johan had encountered a big traffic jam here
earlier on the way in and did not know what was going on.
We drove to Johannesburg, with not a great deal of time to spare.
Flew to Durban.
We got a car and drove outside of town 30-40 km to Botha's Hill, and the Rob Roy Hotel, near
Kearsey College (a boarding high school), which was the site of the Environmental Education
Association of South Africa (EEASA).
July 20. Thursday. Spoke at Environmental Education Association of South Africa.
met:
Claire Holland, The Wildlife Society, Ungeni Valley Project
Jo Ferreira, from Australia, visiting at Rhodes University
Robert Donnoghue, Natal Parks Board
and others
Afternoon: toured the Valley Trust, founded by Halley Stott, a physician, for better nutrition with
indigenous agriculture. We toured an experimental garden, led by Alastair Chadwick.
Norfolk Island Pine, Araucaria heterophylla, a gymnosperm but not a pine, strikingly layered. There
was also one in the Divinity School yard at Stellenbosch, said to be the tallest tree in town. This
is named from its origin on Norfolk Island, halfway between Australia and New Zealand (site of the
Pitcairn Islander's second home).
Had dinner that evening with wilderness action group:
Dr. Nolly Zoloumas (zuh low mas), dentist, and member of Wilderness Action Group, member of
ISEE, 208 Musgrave Park, 18 Musgrave Road, Durban 4001, South Africa. Phone 27-31-221377.
Lived in Zambia.
William R. Bainbridge. Bill. long with Natal Parks Board, lived in Zambia, now a consultant.
Bainbridge Resource Management, 314 Alexander Road, Pietermaritzburg 3201, South Africa.
Phone 27-331-69133. He subsequently came to the wilderness workshop at Stellenbosch.
Roland C. Goetz, Msinsi Holdings, P. O. Box 53301, Yellowwood Park 4011, South Africa. He was
director of Wilderness Leadership School formerly in Natal, when I was here in 1990, also was in
Jackson, Wyoming at a conference I attended on economic values of wilderness. He now manages