The Art of Sleeping in the Wild
Each new dawn on safari is met with rangers, trackers, and guests eager to start exploring and piecing together what events unfolded through the night. While we are sleeping, most …
Each new dawn on safari is met with rangers, trackers, and guests eager to start exploring and piecing together what events unfolded through the night. While we are sleeping, most …
As you spend more time observing animal behaviour, you often start to wonder what life is like from their perspective. The discussion usually leads to a comparison of predators versus …
No one can argue that watching a herd of elephants or even just one lone bull is fascinating – not only in terms of observing their behaviour but also admiring …
Every step I take here at Londolozi leads me to a new adventure and a lot of these seem to start with the Londolozi airstrip. I certainly can’t help but …
One of my favourite things to do on a game drive at Londolozi is to park at the bottom of the airstrip on the way back home in the evenings …
“The fact is that no species has ever had such wholesale control over everything on earth, living or dead, as we now have. That lays upon us, whether we like …
It’s a beautiful thing winning the trust of a wild animal, especially one as enigmatic and vulnerable as a leopard cub. It’s certainly not that they begin to trust you, …
The biggest event of this week was actually a non-event: no longer do we have an active Wild Dog den on Londolozi. The two adults from the pack that have …
The Ntsevu pride are found far from their normal hunting grounds. For once, the wild dog den is peaceful, with no drama that we can see (apart from a huge …
Wildlife photography is not easy; subjects often don’t do what we anticipate, right-place-at-the-right-time is crucial, and knowing your gear and how to react when things don’t go as planned are …
Sometime during early morning coffee, before the sun had risen in the east, the Tsalala lioness killed an adult wildebeest bull only two hundred metres from the Londolozi Camps. No …
For once I’ve remembered to include the answer to the mystery bird without being reminded a few hours after publishing: The correct answer was a Magpie Shrike, which many of …
Yellow-billed hornbills enjoy a rather catholic diet, eating anything from fruits to small mice that they will raid from any nest they happen to discover. They can grab quite large …
The complete unawareness of the local wildlife of what’s happening in our world acts almost like a reassurance for me. It can serve as a reality check as to what’s …
In his blog post describing his best day of 2019 (so far), ranger Josh Attenborough hit the nail on the head describing the exhilaration of going out on a game …