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David Livingstone

  A bronze tribute to David Livingstone, leaning on his walking stick,was sculpted in the 1930s by Sir William Reid Dick and stands close to Victoria Falls on the Zimbabwean […]

Brown is not Boring

This stocky little fellow is a Brown Parrot (also known as Meyer’s Parrot), and as you can see he is not at all boring even if his name is. His […]

African Fish Eagle

The striking black and white of the African Fish Eagle is a common sight and sound in the trees of the Okavango Delta. It is an afrotropical species that nests in […]

Hot to Trot

Why not let these beautiful slippers take the heat! These jazzy images are created by making a heat map (using Picasa) of the following photo of slippers in a Tunisian […]

Coffee Break with a Difference

Early morning safari outings in the Botswana winter are a very chilly affair. Wearing hats, gloves, fleeces, blanket ponchos and clutching bush babies (hot water bottles!) we set out each […]

Lilac Breasted Roller

This beauty has to be one of my all time favourite birds.  It is quite common in sub-Saharan Africa; in fact it’s the national bird of both Kenya and Botswana, […]