Archive for January, 2007

It’s that time of year.

February and March are always tough times to be working in the bush. Our main rains fall over this period and the bush is just so thick we battle to find the game and then to stay with it.
I usually try and take some time off in this period because of […]


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Chinzwini No.8

This is another set of paintings further round to the left.

These paintings are done with such detail although some seem to be over others. That ‘not so intricate’ elephant looks like it’s been drawn over. (We’ll get to that later). The layout looks like a hunter encountering a herd of giraffe. But the elephant seems […]


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30th January 2000
We found Tjellers with a young kudu carcass that she probably killed earlier in the day. With lions in the area we decided to stay with her the whole night in case they ventured her way. If so they would surely have climbed the tree and stolen her carcass. A hyaena took up […]


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I think I was being tested today.

It rained in the south last night and conditions down there caught me off guard.
The elephants were still hanging out in the grasslands and so of course I followed. Tall grass looked like a safe enough spot but then I went down. Right into that deep black clay. I […]


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