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The importance of a work placement
You have just left your family and friends behind, even potentially relocated to South Africa, to live and breathe the intensive six month training that Bushwise has to offer. Then you make it, you are now a fully qualified FGASA Level 1 Field Guide. It feels amazing...
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The focus is slowly shifting
When the course started just over 3 months ago now, all of us were overwhelmed by the amount of information we had to take in. Every week new lectures, three new subjects, hundred new species and thousands new things to learn. Every Monday three test, about those...
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The hot seat
During my stay at Bushwise for the past 3 months I have noticed change in the majority of peoples’ behavior. There were many who did not think that they would be successful in their studies and their own evolution of becoming a Field Guide. The first couple tests in...
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Another egg-ceptional week!
Happy Easter blog-followers! Another week down and time seems to be flying past. With Easter weekend already upon us, the prospect of being set free in to the real guiding world is looming and with every day we grow more attached to the cosy buffer that is our...
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The Steady Onset of Nostophobia
Monday rolls around and we are all looking at each other with disbelief. How is it possible that the third semester is already here? We are gradually realising that within a mere couple of weeks we will be halfway through the course and from there it seems to be the...
read moreTop 10 Reasons to Become a Field Guide
Quality of life A field guide will never be rich in the financial sense of the word but in terms of life enrichment, there is no better job one can do. Yes, the hours and long and the conditions hard, but the feeling that it leaves in your heart is one that no money...
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Fascinating week of weather and climate, geology and astronomy
This was a productive week, we learned all about the weather and climate, geology and astronomy. Subjects that are very important for a professional guide to know and understand. The importance of weather and climate is obvious, but perhaps the most important benefit...
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The Luck of the Magic Guarri Tree
This week we had the same schedule as the week before but the two groups switched activities. The exhaustion had taken its toll on everyone but every single one of us would say it was worth it. One group spent the week attending rifle competency courses and having a...
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Ready, Aim, Fire – Tracking week & Firearm competency
The group shot into into action this week, full of enthusiasm for their tasks ahead. Everyone was pumped to take on the challenges that lay ahead of them. The one group, taking on animal tracking with Collin Patrick, came in with open minds ready to take in all the...
read moreReptiles, Frogging and Photography – a TOADally unFROGettable week…
This week’s focus was on our scaly and slippery friends; reptiles and amphibians. Fresh from a week off, where people explored the delights of Kruger and the surrounding area, we returned ready to tackle these interesting topics. With the theory under our belt, we...
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