#Animals - 85 posts

I spent a weekend at Samara Private Game Reserve and saw more cheetahs up close and personal than I'll ever see again. Plus one aardvark.

An account of my visit to the Global White Lion Protection Trust, and some thoughts on the conservation of white lions in South Africa.

A quick holiday to the Drakensberg Mountain Retreat in the northern foothills of the Drakensberg Mountains, where we saw a herd of wild horses.

It’s been a while since I wrote a pop-up travel post – a post about a place that I traveled to a long time ago, nearly forgot, then remembered and …

From the Melville Cat: Heather asked me to write a blog post this weekend. Apparently my fans have been asking her about my wellbeing. She says they want to …

I squatted as close to the ground as possible. Tiny rocks dug into my palms. I hardly breathed. The rhinos – first I thought there was only one, but then …

I don’t think there’s much more I can say about this. Giraffes at sunset, shot last night near the Ndzuti Safari Camp. I just got back from four …

One of the best parts of traveling, in my opinion, is observing domesticated animals in different places around the world. (See my post on cats in Ghana.) …

I still have more stories lined up about my recent African traveling spree. In the meantime though, it pains me that so much time has passed since my last …

Ghanaian cats are special. They’re tiny, almost kitten-like, with huge eyes and ears. They materialize out of nowhere, hop lightly into your lap, and curl …

On August 8, 2010, I published my first blog post from South Africa. The first photo in that post was a picture of a hadeda in my back yard. A hadeda at the …

Last month, during my blogger weekend in Port Elizabeth, I visited the SA Marine Rehabilitation and Education Centre (SAMREC) in Cape Recife. SAMREC, a small, …