Just as the whistled alarm call of a puku antelope is impossible for a safari guide to ignore, there are some bird calls which are distinctive and immediately identifiable. Recently, I was watching for birds in an area of thick riverine forest when I heard [...]
I still can't quite believe that this trip happened! After so many months of uncertainty, changes of plans and rebooking of flights, I only allowed myself to believe it would go ahead when my guests, Michael & Sue, actually touched down in Lusaka! Sadly, my [...]
It's been a turbulent few months. While some nations have delivered impressive, world-record-beating vaccine programmes, others have experienced awful renewed waves of the COVID epidemic. My thoughts are regularly with the people of India and the horrifying individual struggles that many families are enduring there. [...]
I am thrilled to share a report that Michael Thornton has written about his time in the Luangwa with me in June 2019. There is also a selection of his images which brilliantly illustrate the story and the experience! It's clear from his words that [...]
Getting images published in a magazine or a book is always a goal of photographers. It's a thrill to see them in print, and there's the associated accolade of someone else having deemed your image(s) good enough to be committed to print. In the modern [...]
The Emerald Season in South Luangwa is a very special time of year; few people know about it as it falls outside the "recommended" travelling times for the area. But most permanent residents -- and anyone who has sampled this 'rains' period -- will tell [...]
It's been a while since I wrote an update from the South Luangwa on this blog. As always, this message comes with my sincere hope that you are all well and navigating these difficult times. The return to normality seems to be taking a lot [...]
In August last year, I took part in an adventure where a group of 9 walkers set off from Mutinondo -- on the western side of the Luangwa Escarpment -- and walked to Mfuwe in the heart of the Luangwa Valley. We weren't totally sure [...]
I have been away on a long road trip through Zambia and into southern Tanzania during the last month. I haven't updated my blog during that time, but there have been lots of interim updates on my Instagram. We are very fortunate to be able [...]
This year is racing, rushing and tumbling into its final weeks. November passed by in a blur of Sukey's school (which re-opened but was run from our homes to keep COVID bubbles small), preparing Tribal Textiles to move to its new site and following the [...]
