It was my lucky day when I saw I was the only person in line at the visa application counter at the Mozambican border crossing. Other border crossings and immigration procedures that I’ve endured have lasted up to four hours, but this one looked easy. I smiled, said “bom dia” (good morning), and handed my […]
Enjoy this short video highlighting a few best of Africa photographs I took during the 2014 summer in South Africa, Mozambique and Swaziland. I used a Nikon D7000 and Nikon Coolpix P510. Note: For best results, view this YouTube video full screen in high-definition. (After starting the video, hover over lower right corner of video for […]
During a recent Saturday morning bike ride, just out of the corner of my eye, I glimpsed a herd of llamas grazing. Other than their jaws chomping away on the dewy grass, the llamas hardly moved and I could have easily missed seeing them. I looked back to see if my eyes had played a […]
Lemon Meringue. There are not two better words in the English language to describe a recent sunrise over the Indian Ocean, a real lemon meringue sunrise. Ignoring the fact that I was visiting the quaint little coastal town of St. Lucia in the KwaZulu-Natal province of South Africa, and ignoring the fact that I had […]
While recently trying to plan a 10-day excursion into neighboring Mozambique, I was starkly reminded of how much we depend on internet access. The excerpt below – from a conversation between myself and a local South African, Andre – gave me pause to wonder if my dependence was a need or a want… Me: […]
It was not to be an average Sunday afternoon drive. Forget that it was actually a Monday, but when there aren’t any available seats on a small bush plane for days, and a pair of safari lodge managers needs to get back to work, we launched an arduous transportation effort to return them to their […]
Wandering through the small town of Victoria Falls in Zimbabwe is an apt way to acclimatize to “city living” after spending ten adventure packed days on game drives. Granted, Victoria Falls only has a population of about 8,000, but with paved roads and concrete sidewalks under my feet, it felt like real city living. Small […]
Last night I fell asleep with about 70 impalas standing at attention just outside the door of my bungalow. These short-haired graceful animals had roamed into our riverside camp in the late afternoon and remained standing, with heads held high and noses pointed north, until almost dawn today. I am in Zimbabwe. We fill our days […]
Fourteen hours into my flight across the Atlantic Ocean, I finally opened the shade at my window seat to have a look, and I see Africa. I SEE AFRICA! Forty thousand feet below, the land is copper in color, and some tan spots wind about across the flat Namib Desert. At the eastern edge of […]