Thursdays Special ~ Profile Of The Leonine Kind
We came upon the Maasai Mara’s famous Marsh Pride on a morning game drive out from Mara River Camp. It was August – as close to winter as Kenya gets – the skies leaden, the plains parched and dusty,...
View ArticleMore Dallying In The Dingle ~ Encounters with Rare Bird, Twitchers, A Goddess...
Nor was it the kind of day when one might expect any of these things to cross one’s path. Truth was I was in a bit of a stew on Saturday morning. He who dismantles wooden builder’s pallets and shares...
View ArticlePeroulia Dreaming Part 1
It was hard to leave, yet if we had stayed longer we might never have come home. We drank light, red wine pressed this summer from the ancient Greek Agiorgitiko grapes grown at our door, ate olives...
View ArticlePeroulia Dreaming 6 ~ Phragmites Sunrise
I kept returning to photograph these grasses at the Iconpainter’s Villas. Every time I was struck by the plumed silhouettes against sea and mountains and sky. Yet it was several days before it occurred...
View ArticlePeroulia Dreaming 7 ~ Son Of Poseidon Checks His Shell Phone?
Well he has to be some sort of Greek god, doesn’t he? For one thing I can tell you he wasn’t wearing a stitch beyond the sarong slung round his neck though you will have to take my word on that. We had...
View ArticleMost Beloved ~ The Elephant Child
The fervour of elephant love should never be underestimated. Look like a threat to an elephant child and death will surely follow. But in peaceful surroundings, and from safe quarters, the way a...
View ArticleOnce In Africa ~ Everyday Moments At Hunter’s Lodge…Until The Crocodile
When I ran away to Africa in February 1992, Hunter’s Lodge at Kiboko was the first place Graham took me to. Then it was a run-down safari lodge, developed in the 1960s-70s from the erstwhile home of...
View ArticleKenya Diary Continued: Of Kingfishers, Monkeys And More sightings Of the...
21 February 1994 To Kiboko again. We left Mbabane Road at about ten and headed for Pangani to to pick up Dorothy, Graham’s assistant. She had been on a trip home, and travelled back to Nairobi on the...
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Tales From The Riverbank ~ Breakfast With Hippos
With all that is presently going on in the world, a visit to the old Africa album and the banks of the Mara River seems like a soothing thing to do – a bit of virtual safari-ing. It’s handy too...
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Trio Of Photo-Favourites From ‘The Old Africa Album’
This first photo of Mzee Lali having a nap, with three full-sail Lamu dhows in our wake has to be my absolute favourite photograph. It was sheer chance that a) the scene composed itself so...
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