People are improbable. I mean, I’ve never quite understood how something like us could have evolved. The “just so” story is that as the land got drier we adapted by swapping the ability to climb through the disappearing forest for the knack of walking upright for long distances in the blazing heat, with our expandingContinue reading “Tales of a timid traveller – (Part 5) “Just so!””
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Tales of a timid traveller – (Part 4) “I’ll take heaven for the scenery and hell for the wildlife”
I don’t recall much of the journey from Selous to Ruaha but there was no doubting that we were no longer in the same place. If Selous had seemed like the Garden of Eden, Ruaha was more like the Israelite’s soujourn in the desert. In spite of the absence of the annual “little” November rains,Continue reading “Tales of a timid traveller – (Part 4) “I’ll take heaven for the scenery and hell for the wildlife””
Tales of a timid traveller – (Part 2) Awakening)
It was Aristotle who said, “Hope is a waking dream”. I’d always dreamed of seeing wildlife in Africa but I wasn’t entirely sure that I wasn’t still dreaming as we’d flown into the Selous reserve, over masses of hippos that looked like water vole latrines on the riverbanks far below us, then stopped in anContinue reading “Tales of a timid traveller – (Part 2) Awakening)”
Tales of a timid traveller – (Part 1. ) Into Africa
Tues 6th November 2007. Seventeen hours after setting off from Darlington and 40 years after wanting to be “Daktari”, I was finally in Africa. On the journey I’d managed to doze for an hour and learn three words of Swahili. My son, Michael, had slept a little better but learnt less Swahili. We landed inContinue reading “Tales of a timid traveller – (Part 1. ) Into Africa”
Raven on the Wing 