Drought
Ecosystem re-set button
July 2025
In definition a drought is a prolonged period of abnormally low rainfall that leads to a shortage of water. That prolonged period of time is critical to the effect a drought has on the land.
Wildlife and Adventures:
A Tour Guide’s Journey
May 2024
It goes without saying that there are times when encounters are simply next-level
‘We are all bridegrooms, Kenkebe’
This is applied to anyone who will not readily share his food, and it means ‘We are all entitled to a portion, you greedy one.’ When eating, a Xhosa is accustomed to sharing his food with any person present. This is the story which gave rise to the saying. . . . There was once […]
On the verge of extinction
The Great Tuskers of Africa
20 April 2022
The gentle giants of Africa are fast being tipped into the abyss of extinction by unscrupulous, exploitative trophy and illegal hunters and countries that allow this massacre to continue.
Birding at Cape Recife
18 January 2022
Damara Tern sightings at Cape Recife
An altered state of normality
11 January 2022
It has been 22 months since we last had a cruise ship with paying passengers ready to disembark, in the harbour in Port Elizabeth. Lovely indeed to see the graceful lines of true oceanic Royalty safely tied up at the quay in Port Elizabeth once again
The Ultimate Braai Master
August 2021
The Ultimate Braai Master competition participants on a guided tour of the Sacramento trail and Sardinia Bay with Alan on a perfect day in Port Elizabeth, Eastern Cape, South Africa
The noble Mantis of Bushman mythology
The First Bushman Water in a desert country is so precious that for those who depend on it, it can assume divine properties. To the Bushman water is the ancient symbol of life. In it he can revitalize himself an make a fresh start. His legendary hero, Mantis, appears at the time of the beginning […]
Weeping Willows
There were ten beautiful girls belonging to one family. One day, while they were playing together in the river …..
The Rain Bull
There was drought upon the land. The clouds that carried the rain sailed high above, not seeming to notice the suffering of Africa….
