Some Days You Nail It. Some Days the Bush Has Other Plans.
There’s a particular kind of week the bush dishes out every now and then. The kind that ignores every plan you had, throws a couple of misses your way just to keep you humble, and then, when you’re least expecting it, drops something in your lap that you’d already given up hoping for.
This was one of those weeks.
I came out with a list for the week. A specific still I’d been wanting to capture of the Nkoveni Female. Buffalo in the south-west. And trying to see a young female who has been a little MIA of late. Of those three, I got about one and a half. Maybe less, depending on how generous I’m feeling.
I want to do something a little different with this episode of Virtual Safari. Take you through the whole week, not just the wildlife when we found it, but the gaps in between. The near misses. The failed attempts. The flies biting my leg while I’m trying to record a piece to camera. Because at the end of the day, that’s all part of the fun out here.
We open quietly. Buffalo at sunrise, oxpeckers, more flies than I knew what to do with.
Then there’s the Nkoveni Female on a fallen leadwood. A shot I’d been planning for weeks. Everything lining up exactly the way I’d hoped. And then… well. You’ll have to watch to see how that one ended.
A brief cameo from the Tinxiya Female mid-week, fully independent now. A reminder of how quickly things change out here.
And then, just as I was deep in a bit of desk work in camp with another ordinary day’s plan in my head. I was rudely interrupted. It was Souch. And what he told me flipped the entire week on its head.
Press play. Come along for the ride.
Enjoy this Week’s Virtual Safari…
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Born 2021, daughter of Nkoveni. Young dynamo actively claiming territory near camps, showing promise as next generation's dominant female.
Londolozi's most viewed leopard and prolific mother. This gorgeous female has raised multiple cubs to independence.
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