Salome and had a lodge in the Okavango, a place that will supply more than a few memories for this blog over the coming year. One of those memories involves a saddle-billed stork. Lee Ouzman, the chief pilot for Air Xaxaba, rescued a stork chick whose parents had either died or abandoned it. He took…
Situated on the banks of the Thamalakane River, our barn was a curiously large edifice because its original purpose was to treat and store elephant hides. Its walls were made of chicken wire that had once seen a splash of cement – to reduce, but not quite eliminate, transparency – and this makeshift structure was…
One of life’s ultimate treats is to spend a day out in the Okavango Delta in Botswana, travelling the waterways in a traditional dug-out mokoro with a private guide who will pole you in gentle solitude and then take you for a game walk on the animal-rich islands while pointing out signs of the wild.…