The Week in Pictures #490
Leopards have continued to take centre stage this this week. The Nkoveni, Ximungwe, Plaque Rock and Ndzanzeni females as well as the Flat Rock and Senegal Bush males were all …
Leopards have continued to take centre stage this this week. The Nkoveni, Ximungwe, Plaque Rock and Ndzanzeni females as well as the Flat Rock and Senegal Bush males were all …
It’s been a fairly heavy leopard week, with a couple of Londolozi’s better known individuals taking centre stage. As spectacular as isolated sightings can be, seeing the same leopard on …
Midway through the doldrums of last year’s lockdown, Bronwyn Varty-Laburn wrote an interesting blog post on the changing trends of travel and how the safari industry is in fact perfectly …
True happiness is… to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future. Lucius Annaeus Seneca A conversation I had recently reminded me the importance of living in …
As I’m sure many of you read in Chris Taylor’s recent TWIP, he mentions the finding of not one but two new leopards dens. The Ximungwe and Nhlanguleni females have …
This week has been an exciting one with the lion dynamics taking a very interesting turn. Lion viewing had been somewhat thin, with the Ntsevu pride seemingly having disappeared overnight, …
I was recently sorting through some old photographs of mine when I came across a few images of the Southern Pride which I took quite a long time ago. I …
First up, the answer to yesterday’s Bird ID Challenge: The three birds in question were Amur Falcons. Almost all of them have departed now for their long migration back to …
This past week has been filled with plenty of excitement. Two leopard den sites were discovered on Monday afternoon! The Nhlanguleni female’s den was found just west of our camps …
The highlight of the week must have been the Ntsevu pride taking down an adult wildebeest a stone’s throw from the Londolozi camps. It was almost completely devoured within 10 …
It was an elephant-heavy week, with young ones galore and breeding herds surrounding the Londolozi Camps practically every day. Lions have also been plentiful of late, with both Nkuhuma and …
This week was mainly about the north, which we can access again after some temporary repairs to the flood-damaged Causeway over the Sand River. The Nanga female was found with …
When most people think of creativity they immediately think of the arts; drawing, painting, writing. But there is so, so much more to it. In trying to understand exactly what …
With February generally being our hottest month of the year, we have been relatively lucky to not have had many days warmer than 30 degrees Celsius. The rain has eased …
My wife and I were very fortunate to be back at Londolozi in January 2021 for yet another much anticipated safari. A few days before we were due to arrive …