After the majestic Big 5, the Vintage Kruger Park Ranger Journals are the true treasures of the Kruger National Park. Dating back to the mid-1900s, the journals transport curious historians back in time to the first few years of life as a game ranger in the newly established Kruger Park.
Chapters from various rangers' dairies chronicle the first sightings of the Big 5, European travelers and their oddities, as well as daily difficulties faced through meanderings in the park.
If you are keen on learning more about the history of the exceptional Kruger National Park, dive into the pages of the vintage ranger journals and experience first-hand accounts of radio sessions, ranger training, wildlife mishaps and the wonders of mother nature and her daily miracles witnessed and documented in the park.
General rains set in. They were heaviest in the north and south east and roads and rivers became for the time impassable...
Digest of Rangers' Diaries for February 1941 in the Kruger National Park, South Africa...
On the 4th Ranger went to the gate to see Badenhorst who was laid up with flu, and dosed him with the usual medicine...
Ranger's Diary on the Skukuza section of the Kruger National Park, December 1959...
Field rangers from Msutlu picket report in. They reported two cases of hyena catching full-grown wildebeest. In one instance there were 10 h...
From the diary of Don English, trails ranger on the Olifants Trail – December 1985...
Ranger's Diary: Trails Ranger, Don English, Olifants Trails, Kruger National Park, December 1985. Sunday 1st Day spent at home. First Euopea...