The Hyaena – the Serengeti’s Super Predator
As the crew went about their work preparing the balloon, a lone wildebeest ran up to within about fifteen yards of it before running…
African Safari
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…
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…
Let sleeping elephant lie!
While on safari in Botswana’s Okavango Delta, I was awakened at 02:30 one night by the familiar sound of snoring, but with a slight…
Unusual Lion Encounter In the Masai Mara
By the end of the third day, these lions had full bellies, and all that remained of the carcass was the bare skull, spinal column, rib cage and the skin, stretched out like a picnic blanket.