Fire Spotting

Sunday 12 June 2011 & Monday 13 June 2011
My working weekend revolved mainly around one thing, fire spotting. Having a radio on me the whole weekend proved to be of vital importance as on Sunday and Monday was able to report a number of fires to Sieg who then asked me to drive out to the Highway bridge to spot the area in which the fires occurred. On Sunday I just went to the bridge to spot a fire that was in the Radium area, so it was quite far off and with minimal wind was not really a major threat to Sondela. On Monday there were a couple of fires that were of concern. The first one was in the Bela Bela area so was far from the farm, the other was in the area of the plots so I was sent into the plots by Sieg to see what I could find, after driving throughout the plots I found nothing much so with any danger averted I returned to the farm, where on the Caravan Park road I found 2 beautiful Kudu bulls, an Eland and to my utter surprise, a Gemsbok.