In between injections of gin and quinine we went to test the health of gill-bearing aquatic vertebrae off Linene Island, on the southern tip of the Bazaruto Archipelago in Mozambique. On the surface there were plenty of healthy signs; breaching whales, popping heads of loggerhead turtles and pods of spinning dolphins. Below the surface too [...]
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Piscatorial Research off Linene Island, Mozambique
Posted in Safari and Wildlife, Travel, Unique Places to Stay around the globe, tagged fishing mozambique, Linene on February 6, 2012 | 1 Comment »
Where the Bison Roam…and other beasts
Posted in Experiences, Safari and Wildlife, Travel, Unique Places to Stay around the globe, tagged Bialowieza National Park, High Tatras, Poland, Slovakia, Wildlife on September 7, 2011 | 2 Comments »
Apart from startling a buck in Mavrovo National Park, in Macedonia, and encountering at least half a dozen vipers on paths and roads, we fell short on encountering some big game. The signs were there but guides were slim on the ground. Enter general oracle Laco Molnar, primarily wildlife vet but also part-time hunter, on [...]
New images of the Selinda Canoe Trail
Posted in Experiences, Friends adventurous expeditions, Safari and Wildlife, tagged Okavango, Selinda Canoe Trail on March 2, 2010 | 1 Comment »
The Selinda Canoe Trail in Botswana, run by the old four-fingered Dorian Hoy, bubbles for a short season when the waters fill the Selinda channel, from the Kwando River in the North and The Okavango in the south. We have the latest pics in what Nat Geo Adventure has listed as one of the Top [...]
Fishing report from Kenya’s north coast
Posted in Safari and Wildlife, Travel, tagged Fishing East Africa on February 10, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
The East African dung beetle, Gordie Owles has filed a recent fishing report. The exceptional fishing along Kenya’s north coast has continued into February. This has generated huge enthusiasm amongst keen fishermen and women, of all ages, and has drawn them from all over the globe to the small hotel in Malindi called Driftwood. The [...]
Canoeing and walking through Mana Pools National Park in Zimbabwe
Posted in Experiences, Friends adventurous expeditions, Safari and Wildlife, Unique Places to Stay around the globe, tagged Canoeing Mana Pools on December 19, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
It would be hard to find a better place to drift down a wild river dodging pods of hippo and skirting submerged elephants crossing channels. Or walking freely through the bush stumbling across a pride of lion, and a leopard in the fork of a tangled wild fig tree. Mana Pools is unique and offers [...]
Exploring Damaraland and the Skeleton Coast in Namibia
Posted in Experiences, Safari and Wildlife, tagged Richard Coke explorers remotest Namibia on November 11, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Richard Coke recently guided a safari to the remote north-west of Namibia and has posted a transcript and some photos of what they discovered in this remarkable area… A country of contrasting and dramatic landscapes that sometimes give you the impression that you are on another planet. It is arguably the oldest Desert in the [...]
The pink dung of the Elephants at Lariak-Orook Spring
Posted in Experiences, Safari and Wildlife, tagged Lewa Wilderness Trails Gordie Owles on November 6, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Gordie Owles files another from East Africa…. Just before the rain broke here Kitonga took a new route. This particular safari, started at Lewa Wilderness Trails, then walked through dry forests, Borana and lands of the Laikipiak Maasai, before coming eventually to the water. Our destination was the Ewaso Nyiro river and its elephants.
The greatest migration on earth – update from Rekero in the Mara
Posted in Safari and Wildlife, tagged Explorers Club update from Rekero in the Masai Mara on October 26, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Gordie ‘Sailripper’ Owles brings you the first in a series of reports on the goings around Rekero Camp in the Masai Mara, as this year’s migration completes another revolution. We knew it would be a good one but it really has passed all expectations and now we are able to reflect on three whole months of [...]
