February 2019 archive

Goodbye Africa

Here we are killing time in the hotel room before we leave for the airport tonight to begin our 27hr journey to Vancouver. I can say that I am looking forward to the snow back home! Hopefully the road conditions are good by the time we land as we will be picking up a gutless …

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Who goes there?

Last night as I was asleep Jeff nudged me on my shoulder to wake me up. “There are buffaloes outside our tent.” We could hear them breath and eat the grass as they moved between the rows of tents. It was quite unnerving waiting for them to pass in front of our tent. It was …

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More animals

We have been driving around the Serengeti looking for animals and have been pretty lucky in terms of animal sightings according to the guide. We have seen quite a number of male lions with the ‘Tina Turner’ mane. They just lay under the tree all sleepy and they seem oblivious to the tourists and their …

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Safari

We are on day 3 of our safari and we have seen a lot of animals. I think going on a safari is one of life’s greatest adventure… We visited Lake Mayanara National Park in the Mto Wa Mbu region. Lots of primates and birds. The “birders” in our vehicle were just having a field …

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