Nesting Bee-eaters
Breeding colonies of White-fronted Bee-eaters are often found nesting in the banks of eroded gullies, where they excavate tunnels over a metre long into the vertical sand-face, creating a nest at the end of...
Author: Rob
Elephants – Up Close and Personal
Close encounters with wild elephants If you ever want to get seriously close to wild African Elephants, without being in the safety of your car or behind a really strong fence, there can be...
Mana Pools – Part Two
Mana Pools – Part One can be found here While we were at Mana Pools we took a morning walk with a local guide and this is highly recommended. He took us to a...
Mana Pools – Part One
Mana Pools National Park is located in northern Zimbabwe, along the Zambezi River, which forms the boundary between Zimbabwe and Zambia. The park covers an area of over 6,500 sq km and it is...
Hwange National Park – Zimbabwe
Brief History Hwange National Park was established in 1928 as the Wankie Game Reserve, Wankie being the colonialist’s version of Hwange, and at 14,600 sq km in area it is the largest National Park...
Woodbourne Wetland Knysna
There are many excellent birding spots along the Garden Route between Port Elizabeth and Cape Town, offering up quite easy access to an enormous variety of birds through a chain of National Parks and...
A Visit to Lake Kariba
The construction of Kariba Dam The construction of the Kariba Dam was completed in 1959, an incredible feat of engineering aimed at harnessing the mighty Zambezi River, marking the boundary between the present-day Zambia...
Feathered Nurseries – Gweru Antelope Park
The Gweru Antelope Park, set in over 3000 acres of mostly open savannah near Gweru in Central Zimbabwe, is home to a wide variety of animals including elephants, lions, giraffe, zebra and, in keeping...
Cycling in Namibia – Part Three
Cycling from River to River – Namibia Part Three – Uis – Ruacana (504 km – 5 days) Map data: Google Part One – Cycling from Sendelings Drift to Hammerstein can be found here...
Cycling in Namibia – Part Two
Cycling from River to River – Namibia Part Two – Hammerstein Lodge – Uis (589 km – 5 days) Map data: Google Part One – Cycling from Sendelings Drift to Hammerstein can be found...
Cycling in Namibia – Part One
Cycling from River to River – Namibia Part One – Sendelingsdrift – Hammerstein (496 km – 5 days) The idea of cycling the length of Namibia, from the Orange (Gariep) River in the south...
Kubu Island – Botswana
During June of 2023 Jane and I took a trip to a spot which we have wanted to visit for a long time – Kubu (or Lekhubu) Island in the great Makgadigadi Pans of...
Cycle Tour of the Karoo – May 2013: Part Two
To read Part One of this tour, click here. Day 4: Prince Albert to Calitzdorp (Approximately 87 km with cumulative climbing of approximately 1664 metres) Day 4 started with the climb up the Swartberg...
Cycle Tour of the Karoo – May 2013: Part One
Originally this cycle tour was planned as a “Knysna-to-Cape Town” event, but once the planning started in earnest it was decided to opt for a more scenic and challenging circuit through the Little Karoo,...
Bird of the Week – Week 144 – Common moorhen
There are at least twenty-two birds in the southern African region that have the adjective “Common” in their name, and some of them are not common (in the sense of plentiful) at all. The...
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