Ballooning over the Migration
It’s early January in the Serengeti, and the rains this year have been good for the first time in several years. Some years are…
A hippo encounters an elephant
Watching hippos bask in a pool of water, wheeze-honking every now and then and snorting when they come up for air, would make you…
Elephants and a waterhole
We left Mombo Camp with a plan to find roaring lions we had heard from the camp at dawn, with Callum, our Mombo Camp…
An Afternoon Game Drive
As we finished lunch we could see a massive hazy cloud approaching. It didn’t look very dark or dense, but a gust of wind…
A Family Safari
In December we went on a short family safari in the Serengeti. So many things happened, but these images stand out most in my…
A Safari In Hwange
As we circled the airstrip to land we saw a herd of about twenty elephant crowd around the edge of a waterhole to slake…
Dave features in the Wall Street Journal
Congratulations Dave! The Wall Street Journal have just published an excellent article about Dave’s guiding skills and the amazing safari experience possible in Zimbabwe….
Nature’s Balancing Act
Nature is often seemingly extremely harsh or cruel, but putting our values onto Mother Nature is meaningless. Nature has a way, through every action…
Smugglers, bandits and refugees
The GR 10 Trans Pyrenean Way trail involved interminable steep descents and climbs through dense chestnut and holm oak forests. We had seen nobody…
Leaving the shores of the Mediterranean Sea
Living in the midst of a mountain range, there is a magnetism that draws you towards the mountains and the outdoors. The most famous…
Mobile camping – A safari at its best.
Mobile tented camps, due to their not being permanent, have very little impact on the wildlife around them. In this case we become the…
To Santiago and beyond
This is an update on my previous post, the Way. The day after my son Laurence and I had biked to the French border,…