Tag Archives: National Park It is so easy to take one’s own backyard for granted! After years of good intention but little action, I finally joined a local community walking group this year – the Bega Valley Bushwalkers -and managed to fit in some coastal walks in my region before setting off again on travel further afield. One of […]  The grass was as high as an elephant’s eye. Well – as high as a young elephant’s eye, at least. The rains came early to the grasslands of East Africa this year. In Kenya’s Masai (Maasai) Mara, February and March were exceptionally wet, and April followed suit (see: The Governors’ Camp Blog). When I arrived […]  Thanks to modern technology, solo travel is so much easier than it used to be! In the bigger picture, I was on my way from Jasper Alberta to the BC Ferries port in Prince Rupert, where I had a reservation on the ferry to Vancouver Island. I was working my way slowly west along the […]  I lived in Canada’s British Columbia (BC) for several years during my early childhood and again in my young adulthood. Even though I have lived many years in many other places, it still feels like “home”. The end of the Covid19 lock-down years marked the end of a six-year absence. For the first time in […]  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 […] |
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