Photo Journal: the Best of Graham Wood #1
We love showcasing guests’ photos, particularly when those guests are as talented as Graham Wood. “Woody” as he is affectionately known, is a long-standing friend of Londolozi with a passion …
We love showcasing guests’ photos, particularly when those guests are as talented as Graham Wood. “Woody” as he is affectionately known, is a long-standing friend of Londolozi with a passion …
One of the perks of being a trainee ranger is that in the latter stages of the training period you get the opportunity to go on game drives with qualified …
Sometimes in the process of harvesting content from the guiding team, things get accidentally filed away and forgotten. I’m a firm believer in never passing up the opportunity to display …
Spotted hyenas have always been an integral part of the bush experience for me. Growing up camping in various places throughout Southern Africa I would not think my bush experience …
Firstly, the answer to yesterday’s Mystery Bird challenge… The answer is a Green-backed or Striated Heron. There’s not a lot to go on, but the long legs and long crest, …
After a heat wave of temperatures reaching the high thirties, it has been a chilly last few days with strong winds and far cooler temperatures. This made game viewing difficult …
Firstly, the answer to this week’s Bird ID challenge… The correct answer was a female Lesser Masked Weaver. Female weavers are notoriously difficult to ID, but in the case of …
The Tsalala lioness has been confining her movements almost exclusively to the Sand River. The thickets provide perfect cover in which to hide her cub and hunt, and the game …
Leopards – and animals in general – don’t always do what the books say, and in such a dense population as Londolozi, we are bound to start seeing behaviours as …
There’s no substitute for experience, but even 11 years of survival in the heart of one of the densest leopard populations in the world doesn’t prevent Londolozi’s oldest territorial female …
Ranger Grant Rodewijk and I had set out one afternoon for a drive, not looking for anything specific, just bumbling around for anything we could find. Not long after we …
Statistics are not always the best lens through which to examine a predator community. We’ve written before how populations vary and individuals within those populations vary, so a textbook or …
“Out here you cannot press rewind or fast forward, only play. You have to live in the present.” – Anynomous In broken English, one of my recent guests – at …
It had been a few days of incredible experiences and unbelievable sightings yet lions were still on the list to be tracked and found. A clear, cool, crisp morning sent …
Lions moving through water. The Money Shot. I don’t know what it is about a photo of a lion or lions wading across a river – no matter how shallow …