Airport transfers at set times are dependent on Zulwini receiving flight arrival details (flight details to be supplied by Camcore).
Check-in from 14:00. Early check-in subject to availability.
From 18:00 - Camcore Registration and a light finger dinner taken at the hotel.
The following documents are available under the Documents tab on the top right of the page:
- Camcore 2022 AGM Detailed Program
- 2022 Camcore Meeting Technical Agenda ver3 Final
- Thirty four papers / presentations linked to the site visits and arranged by date
Breakfast at the hotel restaurant.
08:00 – 12:00 Technical Session I / Opening Session (South African speakers)
12:00 – 13:30 Lunch at Hotel is included
13:30 – 17:00 Technical Session II
A welcome dinner is included and taken at a restaurant on the promenade with sea views. For the more energetic types it is possible to walk to and from the restaurant - 900 meters each way along the beachfront promenade or take the coach.
07h45 - Check out and travel in luxury coach via Durban to Howick.
10:00 Visit to Sappi Shaw Research Centre – Forestry Research Facility.
12:30 – 13:30 Lunch (sponsored by Sappi)
14:00 – 17:00 Tree Improvement Field Trials/ Sappi and Mondi .
Dinner is included and taken at the Karkloof Club.
Breakfast at the hotel.
08:00 Visit to Mondi Mountain Home Tree Improvement Research Facility.
11:00 – 17:00 Tree Improvement Field Trials/ Sappi and Mondi
A pack lunch is included and taken en route or on-site at field trial visit.
Dinner is included and taken at the hotel.
An early breakfast at the hotel and then a luxury coach transfer to Richards Bay with field trial visits en route.
07:30 Relocate to Zululand via Coach: Mechanical Harvesting and Silviculture
Afternoon Sub-tropical Eucalyptus Trials, Langepan CCT, Conservation
Park, Pinus Seed Orchards
A hotel packed lunch is included and taken en route or on-site at field trial.
Dinner is included and taken either at the hotel or a restaurant in the area.
Breakfast at the hotel.
08:00 Visit Sub-tropical Eucalyptus Trials and Pinus Seed Orchards
12:00 – 13:30 Lunch at the hotel is included.
13:30 – 17:00 Technical Session III
Evening Dinner – On your own for your own expense.
Early breakfast at the hotel and then travel to St Lucia.
08:00 Depart for St Lucia Estuary Boat Trip
10:00 - 12:00 - Estuary boat cruise
12:00 – 13:30 Transfer to Hluhluwe Imfolozi Park
13:30 to 16:30 picnic lunch and game drive.
Evening dinner is a boma braai taken at the lodge.
Breakfast at the lodge.
07:30 Day Drive through the Highveld Forestry region to Ermelo, Mpumalanga via Coach.
Visit Mondi Fire Control in Piet Retief, cold-tolerant Eucalyptus and Pinus Genetic Trials on route.
A packed lunch is included and taken en route.
Dinner is included and taken at the hotel restaurant.
Breakfast is included and taken at the hotel.
07:30 - Drive through Highveld to Lowveld Forestry regions to Sabie, Mpumalanga via Coach.
Visit Sappi Ngodwana Forestry Nursery (Cuttings and seedlings) on the way.
Visit Safcol Pinus trials at Brooklands Plantation
13:00 – 14:00 Lunch at Hotel
14:00 – 17:00 Technical Session IV in the hotel conference venue.
Dinner is included and taken either at the hotel or a restaurant in the area.
Breakfast is included and taken at the hotel.
08:00 Visit Pinus Genetic Trials (Safcol and York) on Longridge, Spitskop, Tweefontein and Klipkraal Plantations.
Lunch en-route at Klipkraal Dam.
14:30 Visit to York Timbers Sawmill and Plywood Plant in Sabie
Dinner is included and taken at Mbulwa.
Breakfast is included and taken at the hotel.
08:00 Check out and depart from Sabie for field visits, Eucalyptus and Pine Genetic Trials (Safcol, York Timbers, Sappi and MTO) and Macadamia plantings (MTO) at Mac-Mac, Venus, Klipkopje and Hazyview plantations.
Packed lunch from the hotel included and taken en route.
13:00 Depart for the Kruger National Park gate.
14:30 Open Vehicle Game Drive from Kruger Gate to the Skukuza Camp.
Dinner in the camp restaurant.
(night drive would be an optional extra for any delegates that wanted to do one - for their own expense)
Breakfast in the restaurant.
08:00 full day open vehicle game drive and a picnic lunch in the reserve.
14:30 Camcore Advisory Board members to return in separate vehicle.
(15:00 - 17:00 Camcore Advisory Board meeting for not more than 10 delegates)
16h00 Game Drive returns to camp in time to prepare for final farewell dinner.
In the evening a boma braai farewell private dinner function.
04:00 Sunrise game drive in national parks open vehicles.
08:00 Breakfast in the restaurant.
09:00 Coach transfers delegates to KMI Airport (MQP) in Nelspruit to make your connecting flights (for your own expense) back to Johannesburg - tour services end.
Coach carries on back to Johannesburg and delegates are able to stay on the coach at no extra cost for the 5 to 6 hour journey back to Johannesburg / OR Tambo International Airport.
Lunch today would be for your own expense en-route back to Johannesburg if you stayed on the coach.
