Don’t Get Mugged For Nothing     Mugged. Hide your Savings or Saving your Hide? There’s a fine line when coming across a mugger in the dark, in an unknown terrain and then being mugged. Do you save your life and run, or empty your pockets. Well, when you empty your pockets you have in […]

Captivating Baby Ostrich Runegades     Even Baby Ostriches Can’t Fly So, the reason for the heading above is “run.” Because run is what they have to do to get away from predators. Seeing it’s springtime in the Southern Hemisphere, these guys are hot-footing it all over the place around us, getting new shoots after […]

A Donkey Cart – Basic and Down To Earth     There Are Few Things As Simple as a Donkey Cart Your outfit will need reins, traces, blinkers or even a harness for your essential donkey mode of transport? Well, no problem there. The mines are continuously using up conveyor belting. Especially diamond mines in […]

Nicator, A Twitcher’s Dream Discovery     Not Elusive in Name Only Here’ an uncommon series of photos – the star is the Yellow Spotted Nicator, now known as the Eastern Nicator (Nicator gularis). The elusive nicator isn’t as such a rare bird. Although occurring in Lowveld savanna bush from Mkuze River in Zululand all […]

BaTonga Spirit of Kariba Dam     Spirits Ahoy The Nyami Nyami is a legendary spirit creature of the Tonga people, said control life in and on the Zambezi River. According to tribal lore, the spirit of Nyami Nyami dwells in the Kariba Gorge. Local people have reported spotting the creature over the years but […]

Bizarre Crazy Wonders of Wildlife     Some Will Even Kill You This bizarre four inch (100mm) worm has no fear. And the reason is? Nothing will dare touch it with its very poisonous fine hairs all over. If you’ve ever been unfortunate enough to rub against this bizarre creature, you will never forget the […]

Say It With Paintings     Art: This is How History is Made As African wildlife art exhibitions go, Friday and Saturday’s event, held in a beautiful, private Marloth Park Lowveld home, was unique. For one thing, it was an original occasion featuring work by the renowned wildlife painter, Dawie Fourie, together with Moz and […]

Pallet Workshop Table     In the Beginning Your pallet workshop table all starts out with reclaimed wood, pallet wood in fact. Now you may think it’s more work than it’s worth. And the part that makes it not worth the effort is getting out the nails. I know, in getting out the nails, you […]

Anyone For Black Rhino… Free     More Black Rhino on the Move This week in the news. This time it’s for Chief’s Island in the Okavango Delta of Northern Botswana. Some, in fact, 8 – and I hope happy – rhinos have been delivered to the Island for safekeeping as it were. A gift […]

Hippos, Wild, But Not Woolly     Hippopotamus amphibius Not everyone has neighbors who spend their evenings loudly moaning, complaining and indulging in noisy romantic pursuits all night long. And no, we haven’t moved into a cheap hotel in a frontier town. And since these neighbors are weighing in at three tons, we’re not going […]

Impala Baby Mystery   Mother and Impala Baby in Greener Pastures   Impala… Shy… Humble… Yet Ever Present If the impala mother had to write this story, I wonder what her “take” would have been? Below is my “take” on these interesting series of events that I thought worthy for our website and you, our […]

Jeep: The Ultimate Man’s 4×4     Jeep: As Known By Real Men and Explorers Here are some stats and experiences with Jeep. You didn’t think I was going to write about luxury, air-con 4×4 travel, did you? Ok, good. When we say Jeep, we mean real ‘can-do’ bundu bashing Jeep, as in the ¼ ton […]