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Leisure Wheels Magazine – July 2012 – Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park
A nine-page feature article in Getaway Magzine on the incomparable Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park, published in July 2012
Getaway Magazine – April 2012 – Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park
My sixth feature for Getaway Magazine's April 2012 edition, a cover article written and photographed, on the huge Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park which straddles both South Africa and Botswana. (2.1MB size).
More lions!
Well, once again, everyone except me has seen lions in the Kgalagadi! The photos below are from Grant Francis, who I met in the Kgalagadi at Nossob. Now, on one hand I am quite jealous, but on the other, I'm really happy for him! Those lions are just magnificent. Some say the lions of the Kalahari have black manes because they are a remnant population of the Cape lion, which also had a black mane, but which was hunted to extinction a few hundred years ago. But no one knows for sure why you find
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Lions galore in Kgalagadi
As you may know, the famous Kalahari lions eluded me and Gareth on our recent trip to the Kgalagadi. Everyone else seemed to see them! Anyway, while we were there, we met up with Michelle Swemmer, who works as a wild dog researcher in Natal, but who was on holiday with her parents in the Kgalagadi recently. She is also a really good photographer, with a knack for being in the right place at the right time! The day Gareth and I left Nossob, a pride of lions descended on the fence line of the
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Photos of Cheetahs from Kgalagadi
While we were in the Kgalagadi, we made friends with Andrew and Lohla Samassa...and they were lucky enough to get some decent photos of cheetahs. They wanted to share them with all the followers of Year in the Wild. Thank you Andrew and Lohla!
Big place, small miracles
The Kalahari does things to you. At first, it appears to be an endless and monotonous expanse of grassy dunes, grey camel thorn trees and swirling red dust. We’ve been here for nearly two weeks now, and to be honest, we haven’t seen the wildlife that everyone said we would. Perhaps we’ve been a bit unlucky – everyone else seems to have seen lions, leopards and cheetah, but they’ve eluded us. And it is winter, which is a time of stillness, slumber and suspense…there are few insects around (too
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