The White Lady of Brandberg

Post by Willie for Notes from Africa Another fascinating place  in Namibia is the Brandberg Mountain. Situated in the north-western area of the Namib (Damaraland), the Brandberg Massif is a granite intrusion which forms a dome-shaped massif.  It is huge covering approxing 650 km², with its highest point being at 2573 metres (8442 feet) about sea-level. On […]

Spitzkoppe – Between a rock and a hard place

Post by Willie for Notes from Africa Spitzkoppe in Namibia is a spectacular and unusual place.  The Spitzkoppe and Pontok mountains rise dramatically from an otherwise flat semi-desert landscape.  There are many reasons to visit this fascinating set of mountains and the surrounding area. Many years ago when traveling from Windhoek to Swakupmund I saw […]

The Big Cat Whisperer

If you have read Lisa’s quirky post “Take your camera to the bathroom (and other Kalahari safari tips)” you would know that self-drive game viewing can be rewarding and fun.  Especially if you are prepared to put in the time and effort.  A vehicle with high lookout position certainly helps.  Kruger presented some different challenges to the […]

Kenya: Kilifi Countryside

Post by Willie for Notes from Africa On leaving for my first trip to Kenya I got the usual instructions from Lisa to take lots of photographs.  I travelled to the coastal area of Kenya and stayed and worked in and around the town of Kilifi.  I worked there with my good friend Colin, a […]

May the Wors be with you

With twelve public holidays annually, South Africa has one of the highest holiday counts in the world.  Besides a number of cultural and religious public holidays there are also some non-official days of celebration, which are strategically important for the psyche of the nation. Today is Braai Day.  That is braai as in barbecue, a time-honoured activity […]

Fishing with Mandela

Guest post by Willie A tall grey shadow has been cast over South Africa for almost a week now. South Africans have many emotions about the passing of one of the most iconic figures of our time.  When the massive display of grief on the passing of Nelson Mandela becomes a bit overpowering, it is […]

Not your everyday occupational hazard!

Hannah was first featured on this blog in a post called How Hannah got her Peanut “back”,  about her role in raising a baby rhino. Now she’s back to tell another personal story about the occupational hazards of working with wild animals in a game reserves, and the worries that she, as a Reserve Ecologist’s […]

The Antarctic – you absolutely have to go!!!

Once again I have been very lucky to have somebody volunteer a guest post for my blog. As this is somewhere I’d love to go, but probably never will, I was so happy when Christine from Christine Bernasconi Photography went for me! She took some wonderful photographs and wrote this beautiful – and very informative […]

Originally posted on Notes from Africa | photoblog:
This is a guest post by Willie for the Notes from Africa Photoblog. During December 2011 I went to Australia to attend a forestry conference. After spending a couple of days in Sydney, I flew to Canberra to start the pre-conference tour – essentially a road trip between…

Originally posted on Notes from Africa | photoblog:
This is a guest post by Willie for the Notes from Africa Photoblog. During December 2011 I went to Australia to attend a forestry conference. After spending a couple of days in Sydney, I flew to Canberra to start the pre-conference tour – essentially a road trip between…