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Explorers Club brings you…A Walk in the Wild 2017
Explorers Club launches its first mini-Expedition..
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The Selinda Reserve: Two weeks in a rich wildlife territory, on the fringes of one of the Seven Natural Wonders of the World
The Dogcatcher was sitting idle, in Kasane on the northern Botswana border with Zimbabwe and Zambia, and it needed to return to roost in Franschhoek, some 2,400 kilometres across the central Kalahari. A very generous extended pink ticket was granted to me, so I asked my nine-fingered friend, Dorian Hoy, who runs Great Plains Conservation in…
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A recce into the depths of the Okavango Delta
Rear-Admiral Dorian Hoy, able-fisherman master Sam Hoy and I (tackle-master, bottle washer, deck-scrubber) threw caution to the wind and took off up a channel from Maun to see how far we could get into the swamps in a day. Laden with drinks, snacks, binos and fishing tackle we launched at dawn, following a GPS route…
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One extraordinary flight – Ol Malo to South Island, Lake Turkana
Andrew, at the end of the night, suggested an adventure at dawn the next day. “Let’s fly to South Island on Turkana, see if we can catch a Nile Perch, and if we can’t we can have some breakfast anyway, and take in some views.” Chiyulu added “We can break the doors off to get…
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Walking with Camels in Laikipia, Kenya
We spotted Gabriel from across the swollen river, in his striking red shukka, standing aside a large dome-shaped back of a camel. Steve Carey ferried us across the chocolate waters and we slipped into walking boots. We had a hike ahead lead by Gabriel though the Tumaren Ranch to rendezvous with Kerry Glen in the…
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Oddysey into Laikipia, Kenya
On a dusty bend in the road north between Nairobi and Nanyuki, Gordie Church lurked in ambush sporting flat cap and razor sharp side burns. A long awaited re-union with a gangly old friend and Felicia on their shamba, resting in between safaris. A fitting start, over a few Tuskers, to 5 weeks in Kenya,…
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Piscatorial Research off Linene Island, Mozambique
In between injections of gin and quinine we went to test the health of gill-bearing aquatic vertebrae off Linene Island, on the southern tip of the Bazaruto Archipelago in Mozambique. On the surface there were plenty of healthy signs; breaching whales, popping heads of loggerhead turtles and pods of spinning dolphins. Below the surface too…
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Where the Bison Roam…and other beasts
Apart from startling a buck in Mavrovo National Park, in Macedonia, and encountering at least half a dozen vipers on paths and roads, we fell short on encountering some big game. The signs were there but guides were slim on the ground. Enter general oracle Laco Molnar, primarily wildlife vet but also part-time hunter, on…
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New images of the Selinda Canoe Trail
The Selinda Canoe Trail in Botswana, run by the old four-fingered Dorian Hoy, bubbles for a short season when the waters fill the Selinda channel, from the Kwando River in the North and The Okavango in the south. We have the latest pics in what Nat Geo Adventure has listed as one of the Top…
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Fishing report from Kenya's north coast
The East African dung beetle, Gordie Owles has filed a recent fishing report. The exceptional fishing along Kenya’s north coast has continued into February. This has generated huge enthusiasm amongst keen fishermen and women, of all ages, and has drawn them from all over the globe to the small hotel in Malindi called Driftwood. The…
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Canoeing and walking through Mana Pools National Park in Zimbabwe
It would be hard to find a better place to drift down a wild river dodging pods of hippo and skirting submerged elephants crossing channels. Or walking freely through the bush stumbling across a pride of lion, and a leopard in the fork of a tangled wild fig tree. Mana Pools is unique and offers…
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Exploring Damaraland and the Skeleton Coast in Namibia
Richard Coke recently guided a safari to the remote north-west of Namibia and has posted a transcript and some photos of what they discovered in this remarkable area… A country of contrasting and dramatic landscapes that sometimes give you the impression that you are on another planet. It is arguably the oldest Desert in the…
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The pink dung of the Elephants at Lariak-Orook Spring
Gordie Owles files another from East Africa…. Just before the rain broke here Kitonga took a new route. This particular safari, started at Lewa Wilderness Trails, then walked through dry forests, Borana and lands of the Laikipiak Maasai, before coming eventually to the water. Our destination was the Ewaso Nyiro river and its elephants.
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The greatest migration on earth – update from Rekero in the Mara
Gordie ‘Sailripper’ Owles brings you the first in a series of reports on the goings around Rekero Camp in the Masai Mara, as this year’s migration completes another revolution. We knew it would be a good one but it really has passed all expectations and now we are able to reflect on three whole months of…
