iRhino Safari
As a child Angus read a book called ‘Game Ranger on Horseback’, written by Nick Steele, one of KwaZulu-Natal’s legendary rangers and conservationists. He loved horse-riding, and in their early family holidays spent in the Drakensberg mountains and game reserves of what is today known as KwaZulu-Natal province, he says he would imagine he was a game ranger. He says those early days shaped his thinking, interest and career, as a photojournalist and TV producer focusing on conservation.
This seasoned journalist and guide has been lucky to meet and interview amongst sub-Saharan Africa’s most significant characters in conservation, which ultimately led him into the world of travel and private guiding. Because where there’s a safari lodge, there is inevitably an environmentally-conscious mindset.
Angus wrote a multimedia iBook called iRhino in 2013, in which, amongst behavioural aspects and physical characteristics of all the world’s rhinos, he dives deep into the relentless poaching crisis.
A few years after he started guiding and hosting interested travellers on safaris, listening and learning about interests and tastes, he thought a rhino safari was needed. This safari introduces this beautiful, endangered species, tracing the narrative of the rise and fall in their numbers for the past 100 years, in some of the most beautiful landscapes in Africa, where our guests just happen to stay in amongst the continent’s most beautiful lodges, with the smiles and cuisine to match.