Crocodiles of Sibaya Lake

By Sodwana Bay

[embedyt] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rJTWkdjcXJw[/embedyt] Wow – what an awesome video! An epic video made up of all the crocs we have found in Lake Sibaya so far! Our favorite thing to do besides going to the beach and snorkel is going to the lake and admiring the wild life that lives just next door to us! Lake Sibaya is sort of like our free nature reserve that we get to visit whenever we feel like it. It feels like home!  


Tom’s Fishing Guide @ Sodwana Bay

By Sodwana Bay

[embedyt] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sbgMzToeSoo[/embedyt] A hilarious video of Tom tryna fish for the first time in the the sea… Needless to say fishing from the rocks/shore sounds much easier then it truly is! Super funny video made to brighten up your day, loads of bloopers, strange and funny mistakes made. PS. We still have not caught a fish!


There’s a CROCODILE in my backyard!

By Sodwana Bay

[embedyt] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iDSr5j5ofJ0[/embedyt] Checkout this cool video of our very first Crocodile found! Lake Sibaya is so close to us that we can literally hear the Hippos at night grunting! So we consider Lake Sibaya to be part of our backyard, since there are so few houses past us! We had been searching for months for some sort of sign that there might be at least one Croc in the Lake! Crocs are not as easy to spot as Hippos since they are so flat and mainly hide in the reeds! We discovered the best way to find a crocodile is to look for moving logs in the water or to find the shimmer in the reeds, more often then not, the shimmer you see in the reeds is a Nile Crocodile!


Sibaya Elephant Carving!

By Sodwana Bay

A 1 of a kind 3D Elpahant carving/painting! This gorgeous piece of art needs a gorgeous African Home! Watch this cool short video of a 360 view of this gorgeous carving, watch how every angle of the painting looks completely different! [embedyt] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lscdv2QlEJs[/embedyt]


Fundraising

By Sodwana Bay

Hey guys… we need your help??? Please join our online Fundraising campaign to get a small cheap RUNABOUT vehicle to go on with our lives!!! https://gogetfunding.com/our-car-is-gone-we-need-wheels/


How fast can a Hippo run under water?

By Sodwana Bay

[embedyt] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fDVFHXJtIBE[/embedyt]   We were so excited to find our very first Hippo. After months of trying to find Hippos we finally were able to see one. Although he was in the distance and all we could see was his head when he came up for air. It was a Hippo!!! This was a special mission of mine to find the Hippo as it was my mom’s favorite animal! So sort of this video and the Hippo Pod video goes out to you, mom hope you watched it from heaven! Drone Talk: I really tried my best to get the glare less with color grading in post editing but obviously I still have a lot to learn. This footage was taken before the Hippo Pod video and as you can see I did not take the time of day and the position of the sun in to consideration. It was noon 12pm and I flew directly into the sun – reflection on the water. Now I know better – get the sun to your back! I’m slowly learning and making many needed mistake as this will only make me a better wildlife drone operator. For Example with the Hippo Pod video – Lake Sibaya was smooth as glass and when I tried to find anything in the water – I could only see dark green – I had no reference points – no ripple or reflection. I did though; get awesome clouds reflecting in the water and super happy about that.