So much has happened in the past few months that some stories were bound to get overlooked. Today we delve into the archives once more to revisit a sighting with …
After three years of being a ranger here, and having ventured somewhat into the field of photography, it was time to contribute my first Week in Pictures… The bird life …
I haven’t seen many cheetahs in my lifetime. In fact to count exactly, I have had only five cheetah sightings. Of these five, two have been recently at Londolozi. Before …
An animal so often feared and such a master of concealment, and so incredibly adapted to its environment in so many ways… Leaving for game drive invariably takes you past …
In the wake of Cyclone Eloise things were tricky for a couple of days. A sodden landscape meant off-roading was limited, and with the long grass already being seen this …
When the lodge is quiet, the rangers will often go out into the bush by themselves or with a couple of colleagues to work on their tracking, birding, or simply …
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 …
Let us say a few words, at least, in praise of the hardy wildebeest. Instead of one name, they have two: the oldest ‘beest is always gnu. – Ogden Nash …
Just a short one today on a lion’s powers of recovery. The Nkuhuma young male of the Styx/Nkuhuma pairing was injured over a month ago, apparently by a wildebeest horn …
We spend time with the Piccadilly female and her cub this week. Althought the cub is still nervous around vehicles, it is slowly starting to relax if we sit and …
While out on game drive recently, I saw a genet eating something on the ground, and on closer inspection is was a flower, or at least what looked like a …
After the year that all of us have just gone through, the first few months of 2020 probably seem like lightyears away – at least that’s how it feels for …
A spectacular sighting of the Mhangeni pride at a waterhole (that somehow got overlooked in the archives), plenty of elephants – as is becoming the norm, although we introduce some …
Wow the grass is long! Although that might sound as if it’s tricky to spot things (it certainly can be), we actually find that animals tend to be funnelled into …