January 2016
Newsletter
2015 has been a great year for safaris and I have been kept busy guiding between Kenya, Tanzania, Zimbabwe and Botswana. Guests have enjoyed great variety of wildlife and location and I have enjoyed showing them what makes Africa the holiday destination of choice for people who like the outdoors. The verdict after two or three safaris: Kenya is the best!
Here are some images from recent safaris over the last year.
A 9-pax family safari in December/January 2014/2015….
Ngare Sero Lodge, Usa River, Tanzania
Colobus Monkey on the lawn at Ngare Sero.
The lake at Ngare Sero.
Bridge over the stream at Ngare Sero.
Reed frog.
Drive through fig tree in Arusha National Park.
Wildebeest in a rainbow at Ngorongoro Crater
Male lion calle Bob Marley in the Serengeti National Park.
Namiri Plains Camp in Serengeti National Park.
Close up bull elephant at Amboseli.
Maasai sports day at Amboseli.
Flamingoes at Soysambu Conservancy in Kenya.
Soysambu Conservancy.
Simon Thomsett, raptor expert, with a rescued melanistic Augur Buzzard at Soysambu.
Our mobile camp in Lewa Conservancy.
Elephant watering hole at Lewa.
Mother and calf at the watering hole on Lewa.
Typical scene at Lewa Conservancy.
Black Rhinos at Lewa.
Our mobile camp at Lewa.
Cheetah and cub at Lewa Conservancy.
A 9-pax Family Safari in February 2015….
Watching the leopard at Suiyan Soul in Kenya
Dinner by firelight at Sarara
Leaving Sarara en route to Amboseli
Private mobile camp in our Amboseli Concession
Cheetahs at Amboseli
Old acacia tree in the sunset at Amboseli
Visiting a Maasai village
Dancing for joy in front of Kilimanjaro
Setting out in the Serengeti, Tanzania
A nervous lioness is too close to this elephant, who showed some climbing skills
Inquisitive lion cubs in Serengeti
Big bull elephant at Ndutu in Serengeti
Namiri Plains Camp in Serengeti
Back to camp at sunset
This lioness had her cubs hidden in the marsh right in front of the tents at Namiri Plains
Lovely remote location, not shared with anyone else
The wildebeest migration in full swing at Lake Masek
Some of the milling herds
An unusual sighting of a cheetah mum and her cubs sharing the same termite mound with another adult.
What a flexible spine she has!
Mum shows the cubs how it’s done
Scanty shade has to be shared!
A pair of Bateleur eagles
Dawn in our mobile tented camp in southern Serengeti
Short safari to Buffalo Springs in May 2015
Everyone wants to get in the mud
Relaxing!
Squirt that mud!
Friendly young guys
An 8-pax Safari to Zimbabwe and Botswana in July 2015….
Dawn in Malilangwe Reserve
Beautiful but deadly - African Wild Dog or Painted Wolf
Reaching for those high fruits
Mobile tented camp in Mana Pools National Park
Drooling hippo
Yellow billed stork and croc
Victoria Falls on the Zambezi river
This angry cow nearly caught us!
Everyone loves mum
Relaxed leopard
At the sundowner pool
Dinner's all set in the sunset at Selinda Explorer Camp
Ground hornbill
Quite rare to see roan antelope
Zebra lineup
Young leopard posing in the sunset
It’s thirsty work in the dry season
A 7-pax Family Safari in Kenya in August 2015….
Probably the most beautiful leopard coat I have ever seen - in the Maasai Mara
This female had her two cubs hidden right in our campsite and was not at all shy
Time for socialising
Big Mara male lion
Sunset on the Mara plains
Cheetah at Lewa Conservancy
Three white rhinos cross a stream at Lewa
Elephant families on Amboseli’s dry lakebed 
The end of the day in Amboseli
A 4-pax Safari in Zimbabwe and Botswana, September 2016….
Walking in Hwange with Andrew Deysel
Two resident males in Selinda Concession
Selinda lionesses
A very relaxed young leopard female
A bit of mutual clean-up
Young elephant with white-faced tree ducks
Belligerent buffalo
A 14-pax Family Safari in Kenya October 2015….
Black rhino mother and calf on Lewa
White rhino and calf on Lewa
Mt Kenya with wave clouds
Giraffe and dust devil, Amboseli
Kilimanjaro in windy weather
Classic Amboseli scene
Water is precious in Amboseli
A magnificent Mara lion
Malaika and family
The view from the dining tent