Despite the pastoral farms and seemingly endless rolling hills, Vermont has several dense, spread out cities and towns, and it is hard to find truly dark skies, as needed for good star photography. A few feet from where we photographed the light-painted island yesterday, there was a partially shielded area that allowed us to capture […]
Vermont Fall Foliage, Part 1
Seeing the Fall Colors in New England has been on our travel list for years. We decided to go this year, which was precipitated by my camera falling onto a granite rock during a windstorm in Namibia in July. That required it to be sent to the Sony repair facility (who fixed it under warranty!), […]
African Photo Galleries Posted
The photo galleries for the recent trip to Africa have now been posted. You can reach them by going to the menu at the top of every page and choosing Travel, then 2018. You can optionally go directly to each of the four galleries by choosing that from the 2018 submenu too. Or just click […]
Botswana 4 – Okavango Delta
Our final campsite was in the Okavango Delta, a rich swampy inland delta produced by seasonal flooding. The waters evaporate and transpire, but do not empty into the sea. This wetlands area, including the Moremi Reserve, has been designated as a Unesco World Heritage site. During the wet season, much of the area we drove […]
Botswana 3 – Moremi Game Reserve
We continued our Botswana tour by moving to our third tent camp of the week, located in the Moremi Game Reserve. This camp is called Khwai and is known for their extensive variety of wildlife. This is truly wild animal country, and we were warned again not to come and go from our tents without an […]
Botswana 2 – Savuti Camp
After four game drives in Chobe camp, we were driven to our second camp. Savuti is located along the Savuti Channel on the western side of Chobe National Park and is a private camp of &Beyond. Savuti is known for its exceptional wildlife viewing. We also realized what the pattern of our week would look like. […]
Botswana 1 – Chobe National Park
After a one night layover in Victoria Falls, we were set to join our safari tour group in Botswana. There was some confusion at the meeting place, until Sam came over and introduced himself as our guide and driver. Turns out we were a “safari of two” and this was going to be 8 days […]
Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe
We visited Victoria Falls in December 1997 for our 25th anniversary. Unfortunately, that was their dry season and there had been a drought. There was less water running down this famed waterfall during that visit than we have seen in Yosemite Park in California numerous times. It was a rather large letdown. This time, we […]
Namibia 10 – Erindi 2 – Desert Variety
This is the second post from the two-day game drive on the Erindi Private Reserve in Namibia (see Lions and Elephants). We saw giraffes several times during the three drives. I always get a kick out of seeing them bend down for drinking (or tasting a salt lick in upper-right), and of seeing such gangly […]
Namibia 9 – Erindi 1 – Lions and Elephants
We finished our Namibia tour by staying at the luxurious Old Trader’s Lodge in the Erindi Private Game Reserve for two nights. This is a huge reserve covering 273 square miles or 71,000 hectares. We had three game drives here. With the abundance of wildlife to be seen, including animals that visited regularly to the watering hole at the […]