Wildlife Wednesday

Storm clouds swept across our Great Plains reserves this month. From the south to the east, each bringing vibrancy and anticipation, a flurry of births and new life, as well as predation and action.  I flew across the land today,…

As I watched the short video assembled from hours of this month's wildlife sightings submissions from the guides and guests at Great Plains this week, I felt a tinge of FOMO because quite a few of the scenes and images…

I first read these magical words as a boy, devouring books on Africa and falling in love with the notion of seeing something new and exciting every day, and of course, reading Isak Dinesen's famous book. I assembled books almost…

I was pleased to see the submissions from guides and guests, as they represent a cross-section of what everyone is seeing this month, particularly since there is also so little coverage of the wildebeest migration in the Maasai Mara. The…

It has been an exciting month across every single one of our Great Plains properties, as this week’s guests and guides’ videos and photographs show. Action everywhere. But I am pleased to see that some also took the opportunity to…

It seems as if everywhere our guides turned this month, there were big cats, hyenas and painted dogs. These sightings appeared almost across each of our camps, which, of course, is no surprise. We choose our camps strategically to develop…

For some reason, our guests had a bumper lion month. From Duba Plains to Selinda, from the Maasai Mara to Tembo Plains, the most extraordinary sightings have been thrilling our guests. Still, the lion and hyena battles stand out as being reminiscent of Eternal…

It is International Jazz Day. Okay, that’s irrelevant. But actually, that moment at dawn, when the birds start their songs, when the breeze softly rattles the reed tops and distant baboons respond to a passing leopard—all while the base notes…

As I write this, and periodically look up at Kilimanjaro as she peeks out from the clouds, snow-capped and elegantly adorned, we are about to try our luck at finding a very special cat that appears in our video this week. The…