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…
Remarkable things happened in Gordon’s Bay this month. Firstly, a young, sub-adult, Southern elephant seal crawled out of the ocean and flip-flopped his way into a Gordon’s Bay suburb, seemingly oblivious of the cars and other human activity surrounding him. An incredulous crowd gathered, and someone videoed the young seal as he rested his head…
I feel compelled to jump into the hoo-ha that has surrounded the ‘startling’ episode of a young leopard jumping onto the bonnet of a safari vehicle – an incident which has put so many knickers into tight knots. Let’s go back in time so that we have perspective. Leopards evolved over some three million years…