Safari snippets

December 4, 2014

International Cheetah Day

Cheetah purr just like any pussy cat, just a bit louder! Cheetah are so endangered – because of being shot by farmers – that their gene pool is tragically depleted […]
November 1, 2014

De Hoop Nature Reserve – whales galore!

August 2014: I was told there were about 600 Southern Right Whales in the bay at De Hoop Nature Reserve, about 4 hours drive east along the coast from Cape […]
October 24, 2014

Ebola in Africa – you can still come on safari to southern and east Africa

Ebola is a terrifying virus, but what you need to know is that the nearest case of Ebola is +-3,000 miles/5,000 kilometres from any of the safari areas mentioned on […]
January 24, 2014

Elephants – why I’m scared of them

“I’m not scared of lions, I’m scared of elephants. One killed my father,” said my safari walking guide who has lived his whole life in a village inside Botswana’s Okavango […]
November 27, 2013

How not to fell a baobab tree, Mozambique

Tragic that this ancient baobab should be felled and at what point did it give way….look closely: