AN ORDINARY LIFE IN A TENT with a lion
I live in a tent on the side of a mountain. I built a sanctuary for lions in a place where there is no house for me. I have been up here for 29 months now. When I first came up here, Mela was only 6 months old. She, my dog and I lived up here on our own. Odin the young lion about to get up to mischief I borrowed Leon's caravan thinking I would use it for 3 months at most, but I ended up living in the caravan for 13 months until moving into a tent. I was already familiar with camping and very attached to the caravan as Leon and I often went away to beautiful places, dragging it behind us every where that we went. Many times when I had to work on the weekends we would only set off on a Sunday afternoon and we would pitch camp a few kilometers away from home on the Wilge River or at Sterkfontein dam for the night, only to pack up the canoe and the caravan at 6am the next morning so we could both get back in time for Monday work. ...