#Wildlife - 31 posts

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

Last weekend I was invited to spend two nights at Walkersons Hotel in Dullstroom, a small holiday town halfway between Joburg and Kruger National Park.

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 …

Last week Fly Airlink sent Anna-Belle from shesaid.co.za and me on a whirlwind 24-hour trip to Kasane, Botswana, as part of a campaign to promote …

Visiting an aquarium is one of those touristy activities that I don’t normally seek out. I grew up in Baltimore, home of the National Aquarium, and I …

I hadn’t planned to write a blog post today, and I don’t normally use my blog as a soap box. But then I woke up this morning and heard about the …

I visited Addo Elelphant National Park about a year-and-a-half ago as part of a blogger trip to Port Elizabeth. Addo is one of South Africa’s largest …

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 …

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, …

I was skeptical about signing up for a day trip to Chobe National Park during my visit to Victoria Falls. Everyone knows that wild animals sleep during the day …

The Pilanesberg Game Reserve is an unusual place. It borders Sun City – a glitzy, Vegas-like resort in South Africa’s Northwest Province. …