A Safari In Hwange
As we circled the airstrip to land we saw a herd of about twenty elephant crowd around the edge of a waterhole to slake…
Articles written by Dave Christensen
As we circled the airstrip to land we saw a herd of about twenty elephant crowd around the edge of a waterhole to slake…
Congratulations Dave! The Wall Street Journal have just published an excellent article about Dave’s guiding skills and the amazing safari experience possible in Zimbabwe….
Nature is often seemingly extremely harsh or cruel, but putting our values onto Mother Nature is meaningless. Nature has a way, through every action…
Mobile tented camps, due to their not being permanent, have very little impact on the wildlife around them. In this case we become the…
While on safari in Botswana’s Okavango Delta, I was awakened at 02:30 one night by the familiar sound of snoring, but with a slight…
By the end of the third day, these lions had full bellies, and all that remained of the carcass was the bare skull, spinal column, rib cage and the skin, stretched out like a picnic blanket.
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.
There seemed to be pups everywhere, often approaching the vehicle very closely to investigate. This all seemed very endearing until it was time to drive away.
…..males have to do all the running!
The short rains, which normally fall in Northern Tanzania in November, completely failed this year, leaving the mega-herd in a real dilemma. Short of…
….so armed with my trusty Smith and Wesson .44 magnum, we canoed out to a flat sandbar in the Zambezi River, and wallowed like hippo’s in the shallow water.
I am amazed that, even though I have been in the bush for over twenty five years, I am often surprised by new sightings and experiences. In June I was on safari …..