The Week in Pictures #474
This week has been incredibly fruitful with a wide array of sightings, from the big to the small, the cute, the ugly and the outright beautiful. With the amount of …
This week has been incredibly fruitful with a wide array of sightings, from the big to the small, the cute, the ugly and the outright beautiful. With the amount of …
Andrea Sithole and I had been in search of wild dogs. We had driven practically every road until we met up on the last one, which neither of us had …
Lessons from 2020 came thick and fast (and I don’t think they are over)… but I have to say they were best summarised by Marie Martin; “The world can change …
An incredibly diverse week; we rediscover a missing leopard cub, try to measure the biggest and scariest lizard on Londolozi, and arrive into the most magnificent spectacle of elephants and …
My guests and I thought there was an African Spoonbill – which isn’t an uncommon bird in the area – but as we soon got closer out the waterhole, I …
“Like the seaweeds that cling to each other after each passing boat separates them, so too a family will come together with the passing of each crisis” Indonesian Proverb 2020 …
Crossing the Causeway over the Sand River on our way back to camp, we noticed something unusual. There is an island of trees in the middle channel of the river …
We have been seeing the Mangheni pride a lot more frequently of late, and long may it last. As a guide you sometimes try and tick all the boxes when …
In our latest Week in Video we featured a sequence of a small family of Southern Ground Hornbills foraging on a rainy day. We spent about 45 minutes with the …
It’s been just over three weeks since we first found the Southern Ground Hornbill nest in the south-eastern parts of the reserve. As per the protocol, we have not visited …
In my previous blog about “How Old is That Lion?” I focused on a few different ways to estimate the age of cubs in particular. Now it is time to …
Previously, I wrote about walking barefoot through the Leadwood forest in the Northern part of Londolozi. While doing just that, I noticed that at both ends of the forest there …
For close to a month we had had no sign of the cub of the Makomsava female. Some had started losing hope that the cub was still alive, until Tayla …
To be away from Londolozi for eight months was difficult, to say the least, especially when you’re watching the daily sightings on the blog and social media. Put it this …
“It’s a beautiful thing when a career and a passion come together” … I read this quote most mornings when I am in the back of Varty Camp. I am …