The Week in Pictures #493
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 …
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 …
Lions have seemed to steal most of our focus over the last week with the rediscovery of the five Ntsevu cubs. Somehow they had evaded us for over a month …
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. …
Male lions fighting; it is simply something I have waited for my whole life to see. Spoiler alert, it is yet to happen in front of me but on this …
Pretty much a month ago, to the day, one of the Ntsevu females was found with tiny cubs as she was moving them to what became a new den for …
The Tsalala Pride, as I’m sure many of you know, has been a major part of our lion viewing over the past two decades. Although, due to the shifting of …
The sun was still hidden below the Eastern horizon as I strolled into the carpark at Varty Camp. As tracker Life Sibuyi and I discussed our plans for the morning, …
Over the last few weeks we have been experiencing a subtle change in the weather conditions at Londolozi, as should be expected at this time of year. Not only have …
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 …
In last week’s TWIP I alluded to how the lions on and around Londolozi had “gone to ground”, so to speak. We just could not find any! Now, I do …
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 …
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 …