Southern Pantanal 2 – The Mad Mad Moonlight News came half way through our evening safari of a Jaguar kill. We drove directly to the site where biologists from the…
Category: Trips to Foreign Lands
Southern Pantanal
15th/16th November 2016 – Southern Pantanal The head of the ocelot, such a cryptically patterned beast, could just be seen behind a screen of grass as it sat motionless beside…
Northern Pantanal 2
Saturday 12th November 2016 (late afternoon) – Northern Pantanal It glared at us from baleful lemon yellow eyes, sat atop a tangle of fallen branches and roots. A Ferruginous Pygmy…
Hakuna Matata – No Worries!
Hakuna Matata – No Worries! A Swahili phrase which sums up the laid back nature of people, their lifestyle and attitude on Zanzibar, the last port of call on our…
Israel – April 2015
A few days spent in Israel – April 2015 – immersed in spring migration at Jerusalem and Eilat, a fantastic experience. This post summarises my impressions of witnessing masses of…
Extremadura, Spain
This blog post summarises a week long visit to Extremadura, Spain during the early spring of 2015. We travelled with Naturetrek and had a fantastic time immersed in the landscape,…