The wildebeest migration was in full swing, with animals moving every couple of days because the lack of rain was forcing them to look for grazing and water. This amount of herbivores together provide a glut of food for predators, who hunt both day and night. As it was the ...
We left camp at dawn for an early morning game drive in an area of woodland near the edge of the vast Serengeti Plain. Next we spotted a young striped hyaena moving away from us in the grass. He had been disturbed by a passing vehicle. He stopped about a ...
As we arrived at the exclusive Kiba Point Lodge in the Selous Game Reserve (Tanzania), waiters greeted us with fresh towels and a frosty glass of passion juice. The lodge emanates space, even though it is tucked in the shady trees of a riverine forest. All the structures are built ...
We were on safari to witness the wildebeest migration in the green season, when they tend to disperse on the Plains, and we did. Wildebeest were everywhere – around us, behind us, and spread out far into the distance. Sometimes we could see lighter-colored bands of animals, which were herds ...
A contrast to the scenario from my previous post was to happen a few days later when we found two hungry sub-adult cheetah attempting to hunt in an area further west of the Serengeti Plains, where the migratory herds are unlikely to arrive until June. They were young siblings about ...
Throughout the morning we had driven across the Plains through herds of wildebeest and zebra. Day and week old wildebeest calves were everywhere. Prey was so abundant and widespread that it was hard to imagine any predator going hungry. We came across a mother cheetah and her four large cubs ...
As the crew went about their work preparing the balloon, a lone wildebeest ran up to within about fifteen yards of it before running away again. This happened two more times. Then a solitary hyaena started chasing the wildebeest all over the plains, following behind at a distance of about ...
It’s early January in the Serengeti, and the rains this year have been good for the first time in several years. Some years are drier at this time of year, and at such times the wildebeest split up in search of food and water, congregating wherever small sporadic downpours have ...
As we finished lunch we could see a massive hazy cloud approaching. It didn't look very dark or dense, but a gust of wind arrived as I was walking to my tent. In Africa a gust of wind often precedes a storm. I hadn't even arrived at my tent before ...
Nature is often seemingly extremely harsh or cruel, but putting our values onto Mother Nature is meaningless. Nature has a way, through every action that takes place naturally, of keeping a perfect balance and order of things. On a recent safari we were on a game-drive in the northern Serengeti, ...
As we sat watching her, one of her young cubs approached us in a manner that indicated he had an unusual fascination with the vehicle.
We disembark onto the beach and are welcomed to one of the most remote camps in Africa. The waves lapping gently onto the sandy shore are rhythmical and peaceful, but the atmosphere in camp is electric. Talk is centred on who will be the next President. Of course, this camp is not on the arid shores of the Libyan desert, and the executed President was not Muammar Gaddafi.
