Field Guiding
Games in Sandton

The Field Guiding and Game Ranging Resource and Guide for the career-orientated.

Recommended Reading A must read for all propspective Field Guides is Garth Thompson's Guides Guide to Guiding. This is not a book about how to guide, but rather what to expect when becoming a field Guide. Telling hunting stories around the campfire each night after your sixth Scotch? If that is your idea of guiding, not only are you reading the wrong book, you're also considering the wrong profession! Guiding is essentially about a genuine enjoyment of people and an honest appreciation of, and dedication to, all the many faces nature has to offer us. Imagine being paid to take people out into the wilds of Africa, every morning, afternoon and evening. To sit around the warm, flickering flames of a campfire each evening, savouring the rich smell of wood smoke, while friendships are formed and forged. The people for whom you are interpreting Africa have worked long and hard for months, even years, to come and see what you have to show them in a couple of weeks. They have great expectations of this brief interval of time. It all depends on one little thing that in fact should play the biggest part in life: Your attitude.