In December we went on a short family safari in the Serengeti. So many things happened, but these images stand out most in my mind. One day we had a puncture (flat), and Laurence (16) and Alana (13) fixed it, loosening the bolts, jacking up the Land-Rover, heaving the spare ...
As we circled the airstrip to land we saw a herd of about twenty elephant crowd around the edge of a waterhole to slake their thirst…. A prelude of what we were to experience in the next few days. When we left the airstrip we saw two magnificent sable bulls. ...
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. According to writer Tim Downey, who was on safari in Zimbabwe with Dave in June : "During eight days in the bush we've spotted lion, leopard, ...
Nature is often seemingly extremely harsh or cruel, but putting our values onto Mother Nature is meaningless. Nature has a way, through every action that takes place naturally, of keeping a perfect balance and order of things. On a recent safari we were on a game-drive in the northern Serengeti, ...
Mobile tented camps, due to their not being permanent, have very little impact on the wildlife around them. In this case we become the visitors. I had taken Nick and Moira Bienstock on their honeymoon sixteen years ago, and now thanks to the modern age of the internet, they were ...
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 difference. It sounded like someone snoring down a hose pipe half-filled with water, creating a sort of gurgling sound as he snored. It was indeed an ...
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.
As we sat watching her, one of her young cubs approached us in a manner that indicated he had an unusual fascination with the vehicle.
There seemed to be pups everywhere, often approaching the vehicle very closely to investigate. This all seemed very endearing until it was time to drive away.
We disembark onto the beach and are welcomed to one of the most remote camps in Africa. The waves lapping gently onto the sandy shore are rhythmical and peaceful, but the atmosphere in camp is electric. Talk is centred on who will be the next President. Of course, this camp is not on the arid shores of the Libyan desert, and the executed President was not Muammar Gaddafi.
While driving along the edge of the Ruaha River during a mid-morning game drive we came across a pride of lions fast asleep in the shade of an acacia, and decided to wait in the hope that a suitable animal would come down to drink.
The Serengeti is a vast ecosystem involving a myriad of players. However the star of the show must go to one of the most eccentric of all the protagonists ....
