The Week in Pictures #494
“Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?” – William Shakespeare No, William, you shouldn’t. Pick winter instead. Yes, summer in the bush comes with its own wonderment, but it’s …
“Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?” – William Shakespeare No, William, you shouldn’t. Pick winter instead. Yes, summer in the bush comes with its own wonderment, but it’s …
Over the course of the last week, my guests Breck and Patsy Weingart and I had great opportunities to capture an array of different subjects, both big and small. Spending …
The past week has been flooded with an array of emotions. Some melancholy and others euphoric as one dominant male lion was killed but another five young cubs were found. …
“It seems to me that the natural world is the greatest source of excitement; the greatest source of visual beauty; the greatest source of intellectual interest. It is the greatest …
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 …
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 …
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, …
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 …
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 …
The rains continued to fall on Londolozi over the beginning of the week, adding to the already extensive rainfall this season. The waterholes remain full, the Sand River flowing in …