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In the book published, it reads, "our aim is progress with
conservation unimpaired."

Some food for thought!!!


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\O \O


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Fascinating stuff, SG and Stf! ^Q^ ^Q^ ^Q^


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Tx Toko...lovely stories and pics! \O


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Thanks very much Toko - Fascinationg reading.


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Seems to be a collection from SANParks archives...strange?

Anyway, this is significant:

“When I was a little baby, my mother and I were sitting on the back seat of the Chevy when we met a big lion in the road. In those days, motor cars didn’t have proper windows, just cellophane covers that you had to clip on at the side . The lion put his feet on the ‘running’ (step on the side of the car) and came right up and sniffed inside the car. My mother had to pick me up and put me on the other side of her. It was getting dark and the lion wouldn’t let us pass. Each time it walked around the car, my mother would have to pick me up again and move me! Eventually, we took a chance and managed to get past it. We arrived late at the camp gate, but because of what had happened to us, we didn’t get into trouble.”

Tourism to Kruger stopped quite a bit during the war, so lions may have become far less used to humans during that period. They die after a decade or so anyway.

Interesting that the female showed interest in the toddler, no matter how far-fetched it may sound, it is not the first mention of such!


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Wow amazing stories and pictures. Just love the old cars and how basic everything was in that time. Now we complain if there are bat droppings inside our bungalow, those days the roof were open on top without any fences.....


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The good old days Alf! \O


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I have missed the good old days 0*\ all my parents fault lol


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