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Explorers Club brings you…A Walk in the Wild 2017
Explorers Club launches its first mini-Expedition..
09 January 2017 -
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…
23 October 2014 -
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…
02 December 2013 -
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…
28 November 2012 -
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…
26 November 2012 -
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…
23 November 2012 -
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…
06 February 2012 -
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…
07 September 2011 -
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…
02 March 2010 -
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…
10 February 2010 -
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…
19 December 2009 -
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…
11 November 2009 -
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…
06 November 2009 -
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…
26 October 2009