Paging through a book called Wild Lives, by Lori Robinson and Janie Chodosh, where Great Plains Conservation couple, Beverly and Dereck Joubert are featured alongside other conservationists, the preciousness of wildlife around the world truly strikes a cord. There’s insight from Mike Chase, Census […]
Category: Creatures Great & Small
If We Could Be More Like Elephants, the World Would Be a Better Place
The lessons from the wild are often picked up unconsciously, over time, and through an immersion in its natural expanse. And then someone comes along and asks you a few probing questions and you realise how the wisdom of the wild has found its […]
The Foraging Flâneur – The Charm of a Giraffe Named Oscar
There was talk of a tall, handsome man about town roaming the wilderness of Epako Safari Lodge in Omaruru, Namibia, where we found ourselves one April afternoon. The man went by the name of Oscar. Oscar Wilde in the wild. Yet, he was in […]
The Deep Peace of a Place Called Epako ~ A Namibian Safari
“The first thing I hope to do as a guide is get guests to understand the importance of animals,” Hendrik says as we walk through the reserve on an April morning at Epako Safari Lodge. This is my first time in Namibia. I say […]
Find the Others ~ Bushmans Kloof’s Anatolian Shepherd Dogs
Bushmans Kloof Wilderness Reserve & Wellness Retreat has always fascinated us. It is a reserve so unique and different to others. There aren’t Big 5 predators roaming about, although the elusive leopard has been spotted here and there, and the land isn’t simply bush […]