I Played Detective. The Bush Played Me| Virtual Safari #322
This one started ordinarily enough. Wild dogs cruising through Londolozi and a torturous morning with the Three Rivers Female, just out of reach The kind of week I’ve had a …
This one started ordinarily enough. Wild dogs cruising through Londolozi and a torturous morning with the Three Rivers Female, just out of reach The kind of week I’ve had a …
Some sightings will stay with me forever. And on one particular morning’s game drive earlier this month, this sighting (a mere 10 minutes) was one of those moments. Heading out …
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 …
Lionesses 2, Sean 0. That was the situation by the end of our second attempt to find the Kambula Females, and I am not too proud to admit that the …
Harry and Megan found something the other night that I really wish I had been there for. They’d come across the Msuthlu Pride, eleven lions, out on the open ground …
The morning after I watched the Xinkhova Female carry her cub to a new den, Shaun D’Araujo rounded a corner and found a leopard in a tree. Nothing unusual there. …
Right, let’s get the embarrassing bit out of the way first. The Tsalala Lioness. A few episodes back, we got rather carried away with the idea that she had given …
There are episodes that entertain, episodes that educate, and then there are episodes that stop you dead in your tracks and remind you just why the African bush is unlike …
What a weekend this turned out to be. It started with something I never thought I’d see in my lifetime. An albino zebra foal. . From there we turned our …
The Nkoveni Female is dragging an impala carcass through the fading light, clearly intent on reaching a very specific tree. With hyenas never far behind, the pressure is on — …
My adventure into the bush this week started with a simple plan: to try to get across to a pack of wild dogs that had been seen moving through the …
Some discoveries in the bush happen by pure instinct. Others… happen 17 days later. This week’s Virtual Safari comes with a confession. While searching for the Ximungwe Female’s den a …
Some afternoons in the bush are all about the atmosphere, anticipation, and simply being present. This week’s Virtual Safari falls firmly into that, and it was magic. We were treated …
It’s that time of year again when the reserve smells like fermenting fruit, and the elephants are losing their minds and their manners over marula trees. We started the morning …
The summer rains have transformed the Sabi Sands into what I can only describe as an emerald fortress. While the vibrant greenery signals a time of plenty for the herds, …