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Keagan Chasenski

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Keagan has always had a connection with wildlife, having been lucky enough to visit Londolozi as a child. After growing up in Johannesburg, he attended boarding school in the KwaZulu Natal Midlands where weekends were spent exploring the reserve and appreciating his surroundings. ...

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Keagan, I really enjoyed your blog today. I love sitting outside a night a looking at the stars and picking out the different constellations and individual stars. Polaris is one of the easier stars to see here in the northern hemisphere and is right above me as I look to the north from my backyard. Thanks for sharing the southern hemisphere with me.

I wish I could see the sky like you instead of artificial lights…

Very beautiful to gaze up at the stars at night and noticing the southern cross in all it’s glory. Truly amazing to see it in the bush where there is no pollution.

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Such stunning photos. We LOVED the nite skies in South Africa. Bill and I took a Dark Sky trip to Ontario and Alberta Canada two years ago. Just Saying…they had nothing on Southern Hemisphere beauty!!!

Oh how I miss seeing the Milky Way on a regular basis. Hopefully in a few years we’ll be able to move to a more remote location without light pollution. It was such a treat to sit around a campfire under the stars at Londolozi and see some of these beautiful celestial bodies.

I’m counting the days until I can look up into the starlit skies of South Africa, away from the light polluted skies of a California suburb. I’ll never forget the first time I viewed the Milky Way, the Southern Cross, Orion’s Belt….. it was intoxicating to see stars so bright and seemingly so close. Returning to camp at the end of a night drive is an adventure in itself whilst looking for the nocturnal animals but my favorite activity is looking upwards, marveling at this universe and what a spectacular gift it is to view.

It’s fantastic to be somewhere out in nature, in the dark and to be actually able to see the stars. In our light polluted cities we are totally unable to enjoy such wonderful night skies as one can enjoy e.g. at Londolozi or any other camp in the bush. The universe is so aw-inspiring.

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