Didn't sleep all that well due to the time zone change primarily plus I find that I often don't sleep particularly well the first night after taking a flight. Maybe my body is still trying to cope with the changes in oxygen levels ... who knows? Woke up at about 6.30 am, repacked my bags & went down for their French breakfast buffet of breadsticks, cheese, fruit, yoghurt & pastries. Stole a few items to take with me & use for lunch later on (hey, wha...

"I've been in Perth for too long! It's time for another adventure!" This was the thought in my head as I headed off to Mauritius. Although I'm going to Mauritius to run training for 2 weeks, I've added some extra time on at the start to go roaming around the wilds of nearby Reunion. It's an island that's basically one giant volcano crater and is now covered in lush vegetation. My flight from Perth was all fine. One benefit of the Coronavirus is that fewer peop...

Lucky! Lucky's luckiness was further proven the next day when we spotted three hyenas on their way back from the night's hunting & then shortly thereafter, we saw a giraffe come galloping out of the bush on a nearby island & then MD heard why. One of the other guides was saying on the radio that they had spotted some lions nearby! Let's go!! We bolted across the savannah, heading to the lions' location & as we did so, we spotted another one heading ...

Routine ... with touches of excitement The vast majority of our walks are very routine: walking for quite a while, looking at tracks, examining poo, stopping to look at the horizon with binoculars & spotting the animals that saw us ages ago so are usually 100-500m off in the distance. However, sometimes there's the excitement of finding something up close (a squirrel, honey badger, herd of zebras, troupe of baboons, hundreds of red lentshwee antelopes o...

Everything tells a story Out on our walks, everything paints a picture & tells a story ... if you know how to read it. The way an animal is standing might tell you there's a predator nearby. A particular type of bird flying overhead tells you there's a lion nearby. Vultures circling tell you where the lion's kill is. A cloud of dust in the distance might mean a herd of animals was disturbed. Everything tells a story. Often the story is written in trac...