This past December, Malealea Lodge was sprinkled with a little extra fairy magic when a visiting family brought along tiny, whimsical decorations and transformed 17 trees into enchanted fairy homes! 🏡🌿 These tiny fairy friends now live throughout the lodge grounds, waiting to be discovered by those with a keen eye for wonder. 👣 This enchanting adventure is perfect for families, nature lovers, and anyone looking to experience a bit of fairy-tale...
A Wild Afternoon at Malealea Lodge

Here at Malealea Lodge, we’ve recently taken on an exciting new project—starting our very own beehives! Bees play a vital role in maintaining healthy ecosystems through pollination, and we’re thrilled to support these incredible little workers right here at the lodge. Not only will they help our surrounding gardens thrive, but we’re also hoping to produce our own fresh, locally-made honey. While our buzzing friends are usually peaceful, as you’ll see in the story below, sometimes they remind us who’s really in charge!
It was late afternoon, Lucky was just finishing up the last bit of lawn mowing behind the lodge—completely unaware of the chaos he was about to unleash! I was in the bar doing stock when suddenly, Roxy 🐕 came sprinting in, panicked, with a single bee hot on her heels. Moments later, Bob was tearing up and down the deck, swatting at the bees with his hat and losing his glasses in the process.
Then came Monstuoe and Lucky in their blue overalls, bolting past at full speed! Helgard burst into the bar, covered in stings—ten in total! Meanwhile, Sana and the cleaning ladies, on their way home, found themselves under attack, while the bees also went after the men sitting outside the shebeen. Even the kitchen ladies weren’t spared, taking a few stings themselves. Phoka, just watching the mayhem innocently from the deck, also got targeted!
Thankfully, everyone is okay, and now we can laugh about it. Bob and Helgard can’t stop cracking up—turns out Bob has some serious speed after all! 🐝
Further Reading
Caroline James shared this incredible story about a pioneering pony trek in Lesotho back in 1991. Sadly, in April 1998, she had a tragic skiing accident in the French Alps and passed away. She is deeply missed by all who knew her—her cheerful presence and wonderful sense of humor remain in our hearts. More than three decades later, the incredible Malealea Pony Trekking experience is still available! The legacy of Simon Mokala,...
Mervyn Bosworth Smith, founder of Malealea Trading Store, was born at Harrow School, England in 1878. His father was Assistant Master there for 37 years. Mervyn had five brothers and three sisters. All his brothers were educated at Harrow, but Mervyn went to Rugby, where he excelled at rugby and athletics. He was also a brilliant scholar, writing Latin prose at 14 years old. On leaving school he went to Oxford University....
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