Falling In Love With Life Again
Our Journey at Londolozi began on the 1st December 1998. Mish arrived from a neighbouring lodge and I was fresh off the ranger training course, which was in Northern Natal at …
Our Journey at Londolozi began on the 1st December 1998. Mish arrived from a neighbouring lodge and I was fresh off the ranger training course, which was in Northern Natal at …
The Malachite is one of 9 kingfisher species found at Londolozi. Measuring just 14 cm from tail to bill and weighing only 17 grams, it would seldom be seen if …
Many people arrive in Africa for their first safari and do not know of the African wild dog. Each time it surprises me when I hear, “I have never heard …
We mentioned yesterday in TWIP how the lone Ottawa male has been prowling around, mainly in the north of Londolozi. At only three-and-a-half years old (to my knowledge he was …
I finally got a glimpse of the Ottawa male lion, as he was found next to the Sand River, barely 200 metres from where one of the Birmingham males had …
Leopards will eat pretty much anything they can get hold of. They will hunt and catch a wide range of species, and are also not averse to eating carrion, as …
Male Egyptian geese are fiercely territorial and aggressively protective over their females. These geese are monogamous meaning that they have one mate and will only find another if their mate …
Those who saw yesterday’s Week in Pictures would have seen the second and third photos of a whole lot of vultures feeding on an elephant carcass. The elephant was a young …
What one finds over the years is that there is a continual oscillation between lion-focused periods and leopard-focused periods. Sometimes there’s as much drama in one population as in the …
Lions have been heard calling almost every morning in our eastern parts this week. It seems the Birmingham male lions and Ntsevu females have been capitalising (or trying to) on …
Most rangers will have a list of sightings that they would like bear witness to. The longer one spends out here, the more chance of some of those taking place. …
Before we consider the question in the title, let us consider: do humans have fun? Of course. My four-year-old niece has a fantastic time chasing me around the garden, that’s …
From Sydney to Shanghai, my guests this week have come from far and wide with one thing in mind: Photography. Londolozi Game Reserve has long been renowned as one of …
It was a slightly cloudy day as we set out on our early morning game drive. Tracker Sersant, our guests and I had planned to try and track down the …
Few campfires in Africa – or indeed anywhere – have had so much history stem from their flames as the one that still burns in Londolozi’s Varty Camp, over 90 …