LLOYD CAMP IS THE AUTHOR OF AFRICA BITES: SCRAPES AND ESCAPES IN THE AFRICAN BUSH AND CONFESSIONS OF AN AFRICAN SAFARI GUIDE: TRUTHS, TALES AND TABOOS OF THE SAFARI LIFE
I guided a teenager once who fell in love with the idea of being a safari guide. Lovely kid. His enthusiasm so impressed me that I arranged an apprenticeship at the game reserve for him. He arrived with new binoculars and a vast library of wildlife reference books. We immediately put him to work in the bar by night and he carried spanners in the workshop by day. During his
