Prints For Wildlife, a Fundraiser for Wildlife
Only 4 days left to purchase your beautiful print and make a positive contribution to wildlife conservation Prints for Wildlife is an initiative set up by Pie Aerts and Marion Payr in connection with African Parks. The aim of the initiative is to increase funds for...
Fine Art Print Collection
Fine Art Print Collection I have spent many years taking photos and to be honest the photos have mostly just sat on my computer. Therefore I am really excited to finally have my fine art print collection live and ready to purchase! I am so happy to be able to...
Lewa Safari Marathon
On Saturday 27th June around 60 runners got together in Lewa, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, to complete a half marathon. Unfortunately, the annual Lewa Safari marathon had to be cancelled for the second time due to covid but it was able to continue virtually. We...
Volunteering from my perspective
As promised here is the next instalment of volunteering information, please bear in mind this is all purely from my perspective from my own personal experiences and therefore not to be used as a hard and fast guideline for volunteering. Whenever you are thinking about...
Volunteerism
Getting involved in the community surrounding where I live is something I think is very important. I feel like I am in a privileged position and it is my duty to be able to share my knowledge and experience and help others as best I can. For me I don’t like to do that...
Day to Day
As predicted the blog has gotten a little bit forgotten recently, I would love to say it's because I have been so busy with new projects and very exciting things happening in my life. That's not exactly the case, to be honest, I have just been settling into my new,...
Lewa Safari Marathon
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b87oGFcxB38 In the days when you are finishing up work for the term thinking about all the free time, you will have when you move to Kenya and consequently, how fit you will be, you decide it's a great idea to sign up for the Lewa...
Training
22nd May Having pets inside a conservancy isn't for the faint-hearted, I'm not sure how so many people do it unless they are permanently on edge like I am or they are the bloody dog whisperer. I'll be honest dog walks aren't relaxing, clearing your head, de-stressing...
Cat and Dog walk
19th & 20th May Today's walk was slower than usual as we had an extra body with us, Duma decided to join us on our morning stroll, this is not unusual for Duma and something that is definitely needed. Since being an indoor cat she has put on a few pounds...
One word..diarrhea
18th May I woke up early today with great plans (ok not that great - just the usual dog run/walk/stumble). However, Roo had made different plans for me. I spent the morning cleaning up Roo's diarrhea, despite the fact that, as we did discovered just yesterday, Roo...
Duma’s release!
17th May This morning I just went for a stroll with the dogs, less stressful for everyone involved. No real animal encounters today. You really have to get up and out before 7:30 to be able to get a decent walk in before it gets too hot. Basically, you have 3 hours...
Lions and lead free dog walk
15th & 16th May Yesterday I made a conscious effort to have proper Kiswahili lessons and realised how many bad habits I have already picked up, the advice from my Mwalimu (teacher) was to ask everyone to speak to me only in Kiswahili so be prepared for lots of...
Walking Safari
14th May Today I was joining a guest on their walking safari which I was looking forward to, however it meant a very early rise to be able to walk and feed the dogs before 7am! 7:00am turned into 7:30am (a mild case of Swahili time) and then we were off. We were...
Snake release
13th May Check on the swifts and release them from their box and they manage to fly back to their nest ? hopefully what ever was in there last night that disturbed them has gone away. I’m trying to start each day with some exercise, especially as the Lewa half...
Swift Mayhem
12th May Today I didn’t do much, I spent a lot of time in front of the computer editing the jackal cub photos and old photos which I hadn’t gotten around to yet. I also attempted to make the house keepers less scared of the dogs by showing them some of the tricks they...
Nanuyki
11th May Today I am off to Nanyuki for the second attempt at getting a SIM card. I take the dogs for a quick walk, feed them and the cat and then leave at 8. Early morning walks Going anywhere here means a game drive on the way, which is great. We saw Bat eared fox,...
SOS
10th May I appear to be in a habit of waking up early so I attempted to make the most of it and go for a run before it gets hot/starts raining. Again I run with one dog at a time, I take the big dog Rafa first all was going well until he sees something and makes a...
The first dog run…
9th May The night was pretty uneventful and we wake up refreshed. Charl goes off to work (2 min walk to the office) and I attempt my first run. I decide I can only manage one dog at a time on a single track path hacked through the thicket. I’ll be honest, it was not...
