Tag Archives: birds I was excited about my first day in East African parks. In the few hours we had spent driving around Kenya’s Lake Nakuru National Park, we had seen two of the Big Five and numerous other magnificent wild animals. The centrepiece and raison d’être of the park, of course, is the lake, known for its […]  Finally! The day dawned clear, and while the mists cloaked the distant mountains, the extensive green hills covered in tea bushes and silver oak trees that surrounded my ‘resort’ had at long-last come into view. I had booked myself in for a week’s stay above Munnar, a town in the Western Ghats in India’s southern […]  You are never far from water on Haida Gwaii. This collection of around 150 islands in northwestern British Columbia (BC), Canada is home to the people of the Haida Nation – and has been for at least 13,000 years. The archipelago sits between 55 and 125 km (34 and 78 mi) from the BC mainland to the […]  Remember that time when we were all confined to our houses? As much as I chafed at have two new and pristine passports locked away, I recognised how very, very lucky I was. I was trapped – like everyone – but I had plenty of space and fresh air, and ever-changing views from the boardwalk […]  It is easy to take one’s own backyard a bit for granted! It is winter in Australia at the moment – a time when I’m often in the Northern Hemisphere looking for better weather. Truth be told, though, winter in my corner of the world – in Eden on the temperate Far-South Coast of New […] |
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