Ballooning over the Maasai Mara!
It was 3 am in the morning and the alarm’s jarring notes got me up and out of bed. What an unearthly hour to wake up! But it was the most exciting day with a totally new experience for us all. We were going to go ballooning over the Maasai Mara! 24 of us piled […]
The serval takes on a baboon troop!
We were driving in the Maasai Mara, hoping to find cheetahs on the hunt. That is truly spectacular to watch and though we had already seen one that morning I really was hoping to find another hunting cheetah. No such luck but movement in the tall grass caught my attention and we turned that way. […]
The self made waterhole!
Everybody knows that elephants need a lot of water daily. The real issue is how to get at these when there is no rain. This is of course true for all other animals as well. Sometimes the river runs dry or there are just little pools covered in algae in the dry season. The waterholes […]
Penguins under the car….. Seriously??
Africa is always full of surprises and this is surely one of them? Did you know that 4-5 different penguin species are seen here at different times and there is a penguin tht is actually called the African Penguin? No? Well there is the surprise. Cape town and surrounds have rookeries (places where penguins congregate) […]
The fight for dominance!
The Kgalagadi provides a vast panorama where all sorts of interactions play out across the desert. The most exciting is a hunt of course and it undeniably not a common sight. That makes it all the more exciting. However, there are other interactions some more dynamic than others and those are dominance fights. These are […]
Tiny, smart and simply gorgeous – Dik-diks
The Maasai Mara. The name conjures up images of the Great migration. The greatest spectacle on earth. 1 million wildebeest and zebra crossing the plains for food and water and encountering lions, leopards and rivers full of crocodiles. It is all that for sure and more as well. I had just dropped off our guests […]
