Secretarybird Extravaganza
When Rob and I were last in the Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park, we stayed at the Nossop campsite from which it is a short drive to the Kang waterhole. We like to sit at a...
Tagged: Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park
Well Owl Be Damned!
Owls mean different things to different people. I personally love them, but for many who are superstitious, they are believed to be harbingers of death and misfortune. Perhaps you shape your reality of things...
Cheetahs – Natural Born Cullers
On our recent visit to the Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park we were lucky to see six cheetahs – two with kills and four in a group lying in wait for an unsuspecting Springbok to come...
The African Wild Cat
There’s something special about being in a game reserve and seeing the big cats like lions, leopards and cheetahs and then coming across a little African wild cat. Wild cats look so much like...
The Meerkats of the Kalahari
Who hasn’t seen the delightful TV documentary series “Meerkat Manor” put on by Animal Planet about seven years ago and wanted to see these funny smiley little mammals in the flesh? We camped recently...
The day of the mouse!
You don’t have to spend very long in a game reserve or park to realize that it a very treacherous environment for the four-legged, two-legged and even the legless inhabitants. With very few exceptions,...
The Big Five : Part 3 – African Lions
I started my Big Five blogs with articles about leopards and buffalo. Today is the turn of the mighty lion – one of the most impressive animals in Africa. We’ve been fortunate enough to...
Botswana 2010 : Rooiputs Part 3
We changed campsites three times at Rooiputs as we couldn’t get bookings at one particular site for the whole duration of our stay. In fact very often the campsites were purported to be fully...
Botswana 2010: Union’s End
I find that one of the special joys of travel is to visit places that I heard about or read about as a relative youngster. I got a great kick, while visiting the UK,...
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