Butterfly camouflage - Umkomaas Valley. South Africa

Female leopard - Mashatu, Botswana

A female leopard strides off during the late afternoon light to look for her missing third cub. She found it, but it had an injured back leg.

Leopard steels kill - Okavango delta

This daring leopard in the Okavango Delta nervously glances behind him as he steels a few bites of a lion kill (young buffalo). When the lion's away the leopard will play with his grub!!!

Victoria Falls - Baines-style

This image was taken about 18 months ago, but despite the deliberate aging  they probably look much the same as when Thomas Baines first painted them in the 1860s

Oh, what a wicked web we weave......

Spiders are not my most favourite things, but they do make the most amazingly symetrical webs that make you wonder about nature

Reflections of Nyala - Tembe Elephant park

Oh....that beach at Haga

Endless peaceful beaches - except when the Bishops and Halls arrive to play cricket!

Unspoilt Haga Haga #2



Panorama of the beautiful Wild Coast last weekend.



Feeling twitchy.

Okavango leopard checking the insects dive bombing his kill in an adjacent tree.

AS I sit inputing the details on this image I can hear the continuous coverage by Sky news on the terrible after effects of the tsunami in Japan. Some of the footage is almost too visual, too horrific to absorb - more like a far-fetched Hollywood disaster  movie. Yesterday's visuals included a scene of the wave sweeping up a pile of brand new cars like a set of dinky toys, almost with contempt. Nature's revenge maybe.

Okavango watering hole