Where are the Dung Beetles?
Driving around with my friend and tracker, Jerry Hambana, he drew my attention to how few dung beetles there have been over the last few weeks. At the height of …
Driving around with my friend and tracker, Jerry Hambana, he drew my attention to how few dung beetles there have been over the last few weeks. At the height of …
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 …
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 …
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 …
Andrea Sithole and I had been in search of wild dogs. We had driven practically every road until we met up on the last one, which neither of us had …
At Londolozi we are treated to numerous amazing sightings of so-called “big game” such as leopards, lions and elephants, to name a few. But every now and then an unusual …
An incredibly diverse week; we rediscover a missing leopard cub, try to measure the biggest and scariest lizard on Londolozi, and arrive into the most magnificent spectacle of elephants and …
“Like the seaweeds that cling to each other after each passing boat separates them, so too a family will come together with the passing of each crisis” Indonesian Proverb 2020 …
It’s been quite a year. The upheaval that has been 2020 has redefined the way we view things. The way business is conducted, society, each other, this planet and indeed …
A couple of lion tracking expeditions took place this week, some successful and some not. Hyenas featured strongly as did the ever-present elephant herds. Summer is in full swing at …
“It’s a beautiful thing when a career and a passion come together” … I read this quote most mornings when I am in the back of Varty Camp. I am …