The Week in Pictures #503
This week, leopards and elephants have stolen the limelight, with numerous different individuals being seen over the course of the week. Lions however have been slightly more scarce and actually …
This week, leopards and elephants have stolen the limelight, with numerous different individuals being seen over the course of the week. Lions however have been slightly more scarce and actually …
I hope it never gets old saying this, but once again, another week of photographic splendour was had. And on that note, let’s get right into it… The Plains Camp …
After celebrating The Week in Pictures #500 last week and all that went into it, we are so grateful that this week we can share with you another amazing photographic …
As we rapidly approach the winter solstice, who would have thought that the year 2021 would fly by as quickly as it has? The southern hemisphere’s winter solstice is the …
I’m sitting at a waterhole watching the waterbirds wade along the waters edge as the swallows zig-zag low above the water swooping up unsuspecting insects. What seemed like a peaceful …
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 …
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 …
(Editor’s Note: We posted one of our Virtual Safaris a few weeks ago in which we featured a tree that had been hit by a bolt of lightning. This post …
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 …
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 …
Birding on foot is one of my favourite ways of spending time in nature. Relative to driving around the bush it forces you to take it slow. This affords you …
The fall-out of Cyclone Eloise is nowhere as bad as we thought it might be. Apart from some minor erosion to a few of the roads, we came out pretty …
It’s been a fairly slow leopard week, with long grass and only a couple of vehicles out making sightings hard to come by. Cloudy and windy conditions have made for …
“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 …