I spent this last weekend at Fynbos Estate celebrating the wedding of Diana and Johan’s son Peter Narun to his beautiful bride Andrea Powers. While we sipped on champagne, ate delicious food, cried tears of happiness and danced the night away, a little camera trap was sitting quietly on the mountain, 1.5km from the farms front door, unobtrusively taking photographs of Paardeberg animals. With a somewhat foggy head and a very happy heart I made my way up the mountain in the heat of Sunday morning to collect the camera trap. I was delighted to find that, despite the camera trap having been out for less than 2 days, it had captured two lovely photographs – one of a porcupine and one of a cape fox. So exciting! It made me wonder how many more animals we would find and photograph if we had more camera traps out and left them out for longer!
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Tali putting up a camera trap. Camera traps are small and inconspicuous, and are almost exactly like regular cameras. The main difference is that they are remotely triggered, most commonly by movement. So, something walks past the camera trap, and the device is triggered to take a photograph. |
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A cape fox (Vulpes chama) ambles down the road. |
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A porcupine (Hystrix cristata) snuffles in for a closer look. |
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