Day 10-12. We are now further down the Caribbean coast and it has a very different vibe here – an interesting mix of Caribbean and Costa Rican. We’re staying a couple of kilometres outside of the small town, and as everybody seems to get around by hiring bikes, we’ve done the same. They took a bit of getting used to as […]
Day 6. A 6.45 a.m. pickup from our lodge, followed by a 4 hour journey by road, and another 2 hours by boat. We are now in Tortuguero which is only accessible via a boat trip through the jungle. It feels very ‘Indiana Jones’! Our lodge has the river on one side, and the Caribbean sea on the other. […]
Day 3 and we left early to travel to Arenal – an area dominated by a volcano. The journey was in a cramped minibus on unmade roads – gravel tracks for over 2 hours constantly up and down the hillsides. The scenery however was stunning and almost Alpine. We then had to cross a lake on a 45 minute boat ride.As […]
Well getting here was a challenge – our flight was delayed at Heathrow, which meant we had less than 30 minutes from our ‘plane landing in Madrid to the departure of our next flight. We were seated near the back which meant waiting for everyone to disembark before we could get off, and then we ran the length of the […]
Mondays are market day in the nearest town which is a 30 minute drive away. We had asked if we could join the vehicles going to get provisions, so we spent an hour wandering round. This is definitely not a tourist place! I took the photo of the car as it amused me to see that somebody was having […]
I still have absolutely zero interest in photographing birds when I’m at home, but in Africa they are often brightly coloured, pretty, or very very big! And one of my favourites – the lilac breasted roller. Whilst in Kenya I saw more Eagles in two weeks than I have in the rest of my years put […]
Just before dusk one evening we were lucky enough to spot a cheetah mother and her two cubs who were exceptionally cute. In any gallery, click on the thumbnails to see each image at full size. Elephant babies are great fun to watch. They don’t know how to control the muscles in their trunks and they swing them around […]
One day we saw a newborn Grant’s gazelle. Its mother ran off as soon as we started approaching, and the newborn’s instincts kicked it and it dropped to the ground, camouflaging itself and looking like a stone from the distance. The mother seemed unperturbed and was grazing quite a distance away – probably to deflect attention from her newborn in the […]
All except two of my trips to the continent of Africa have been with African Impact. Going with an organisation like them is an excellent way of taking part in wildlife conservation and being able to photograph completely different animals, landscapes and people to when I’m back home. It’s also a fantastic way to meet other likeminded people from all over […]
Kenya – the land that first sparked my interest in Africa and lodged itself deep inside me for nearly 40 years until I had the opportunity to come here. Those of you who have read the ‘about me’ section on this blog will know that it was the film ‘Born Free’ that did it, and since then I’ve wanted to […]