We awoke to a sun filled sky on day 3 on the Garden Route. After another breakfast of copious portions, Mama and I headed off for a drive eats to the small seaside town of Knysna (pronounced Nise-na). As I’ve always told my clients, the variety of South Africa’s natural setting…
Today treated us to our first day of overcast skies since commencing our trip. Nevertheless, we again headed east down the coastal highway as I wanted to share the experience of being up close to African elephants with my mother. In past years, I had been to the Knysna Elephant Park…
Plettenberg Bay sits on the Indian Ocean off of South Africa’s east coast. My mother and I flew to the coastal town of George (named for George Rex, whom, rumor says was the unclaimed first son of King George III). George serves as a bit of a golf mecca in South…
Today would be our last day in the bush and we were hopeful of another morning drive filled with strong impressions for the eyes and ears. We were not disappointed as, before the Land Rover pulled out from the parking area, our tracker, Chris, saw a set of tracks belonging to…
What can a ranger and tracker do to top a start to an African safari like the one we had? I would think, almost nothing. However, I was wrong.
Brendan took us to see whether the mother hyena had stayed close to her den (an old termite mound turned home) with…
We had one heck of an arrival, afternoon game drive yesterday and morning game drive just an hour ago at CC Africa’s Exter Leadwood Camp. Upon arrival, we watched an elephant herd drinking at the river upon which the lodge is built. We went out on an afternoon game drive and…
I spent the prior two nights at Kirkman’s Kamp located in the best game viewing spot in the Kruger Park, the Sabi Sand Game Reserve. Another CC Africa lodge, Kirkman’s is named for Harry Kirkman who lived on this same piece of property in the early part of the last century….
My ranger dropped me at the Madikwe airfield and I was flown back through to Johannesburg at then on to the landing strip at Ngala Safari Lodge. This safari lodge rests on its own private 17,000 hectare (about 50,000 acres) property abutting the border of Kruger National Park. The land was…
What an incredible sight, over 100 elephants at a large watering hole with lions and cubs on the perimeter. Brian correctly assumed the elephants would come for a late afternoon drink and saw the lion pride in the nearby brush upon arrival. He predicted a clash between the two species as…
