Social media is full of high-impact, impressive images and videos which are a curated selection of events from the whole experience that is being promoted. This is true of the feed created by individuals as much as it is of companies hoping to sell their [...]
November is a challenging time in the Luangwa. It's hot as hell, we are approaching the end of the season, and both people and animals are counting the days until the arrival of rain brings respite to the land. The sun rises early, long before [...]
I have always enjoyed studying images of wildlife. That moment, frozen in time, allows the viewer to examine closely the details of a hide, an eye, the ripple of a muscle of the construction of a gait. Photographs of birds, which are small, fast moving [...]
I was walking with my family yesterday and I heard an aggressive, hissing, rattling noise in the bush just off the path that we were using. I stopped and quickly found a large pompilid wasp dragging a huge baboon spider carcass. The wasp had hissed [...]
It is a time of dramatic seasonal change in Luangwa; the days are shortening, the evenings are cooling and there is a freshness in the air. I start to think about dry season, and make ill-advised comments like "it feels cooler today; maybe the rains [...]
I spent a very enjoyable hour at a fruiting Bird Plum tree yesterday. There was soft light, created by a haze of low cloud over the morning sunshine, and an array of fruit-eating birds were feating on the ripe green plums. Initially, I was focused [...]
With a wide variety of habitats, ranging from floodplains and river courses to montane forest and high-altitude grassland, Malawi has a fantastic diversity of species in a relatively small area. I just returned from a 2-week trip, split between the lakeshore, the highlands of Nyika [...]
I have just returned from a 4-week safari in the South Luangwa, Lower Zambezi and Kafue National Parks. With 2 guests, we visited 7 camps across 26 nights and enjoyed spectacular sightings on a daily basis. I feel so fortunate to have been able to [...]
If you read back over my catalog of trip reports you will find that the Nsefu Sector features frequently! It is an area of the South Luangwa National Park that lies on the eastern bank of the Luangwa River, unlike the majority of the park [...]
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 [...]
