I am launching an attempt at writing something sensible about a Verreaux's Eagle. None of the normal, though impressive, weight and wing length statistics. I need a new angle. A [...]

I looked up from the driver's seat. It was pink. Not the pink that you would expect in the wilds of Africa. Bright, neon, lycra pink. The wearer, a young [...]

We drive to Hotspot. Broken terrain. Monkey thorn trees line the path. We encounter the first obstacle. Monkey thorn. About 60 years old. Split about one-and-a-half meters above the root. [...]

Velvety smooth panna cotta infused with fragrant Vanilla and Rooibos tea topped with tangy granadilla pulp. Ingredients 250ml cream 300ml full cream milk ¼ cup sugar 6 bags rooibos tea 10ml [...]

Mud, mud glorious mud Nothing quite like it for cooling the blood So follow me follow down to the hollow And let us there wallow in glorious mud… [...]

I sometimes wonder about art. How we define the word, how we use art, how it defines us. Our modern society has a love affair with art bordering on the [...]

I’ve looked at clouds from both sides now…. …Rows and flows of angels’ hair And ice-cream castles in the air And feather canyons everywhere I’ve looked at clouds that way…. [...]

Known by farmers as a pest. Known by conservationists as pioneers. Known by photographers as one of the most exquisite and animated of water-birds in the world… Known in Afrikaans [...]

CROCODILES April 2019 Reptilian…old-world…sinister…dangerous…lazy…deadly… How do you describe the feeling of an encounter with one of Earths last living dinosaurs? Tell you what: let me give you [...]