Ordinarily placid elephants grew foul-tempered and violent in the summer heat. Sneaky hyenas stole blankets and cook pots. A honey badger they nursed back to health rampaged affectionately through the house. It was the perfect introduction to the wonders and terrors that awaited her.Īs the Krügers settled in, they became accustomed to living in the midst of ravishing splendor and daily surprises. Kobie felt she had found heaven on earth-until she awoke that first night to find a python slithering silently across her bedroom floor. Golden sunshine glowed in the lush garden where fruit bats hung in the sausage trees hippos basked in the glittering waters of the Letaba River storks and herons perched along the shore. Kobie and her husband Kobus were overwhelmed by the beauty of the Mahlangeni ranger station when they arrived with their little girls in the autumn of 1980. Now, in The Wilderness Family, Kobie recounts the enchanting adventures and extraordinary encounters they experienced in this vast reserve where wildlife has right of way. Yet for Kobie and her family, the seventeen years at South Africa's Kruger National Park were the most magical of their lives. The heat was unbearable, malaria would be a constant danger, her husband would have to be away for long stretches, there were no schools or nearby doctors for their three daughters, and of course the area teemed with wild animals. Everyone warned Kobie Krüger that being the wife of a game warden at a remote ranger station in South Africa's largest national park would be an arduous move.
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