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The blue and the botanical…

Departing Hobart, Tasmania. I had a very brief stop via Brisbane before flying onto Cairns. Here there was another change in travel plans. I was due to fly to Perth after my time in Cairns, however, this had to be changed due to heavy rains and a tornado hitting the West coast. This was rearranged…

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A tale of the Bush and the Outback…

The land does not belong to the Aborigines, the Aborigines belong to the land. Those of you old enough, may also remember this being mention in the film Crocodile Dundee (1986)… This is an actual fact and not the stuff of movie fiction. Uluru or more commonly known amongst tourists as Ayers Rock, isn’t just…

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Shark bait’s great leap of faith…

Returning to Cairns, I was ready for the next adventure… I was booked for scuba diving on the great barrier reef and I had no PADI license either. The reason for this is, at this point in time, it was not compulsory on such dives. However, whilst there is still no actual legal requirement to…

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Darwin to a salty close…

Departing Cairns, my first stop was briefly in Gove Peninsula as there wasn’t a direct flight to Darwin. I popped into a little newsagent at this landing strip airport and the guy behind the counter was about to give me my second thought of “I have flown 13,000 miles to find this???” The first thing…

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The Wild and Wondrous Plains of Africa…

On a cold November morning I departed London Heathrow and just over 8 Hours later, following a turbulent flight, I touched down in Nairobi, Kenya, late in the evening. My African Adventure was about to begin! It was incredibly humid passing through Nairobi airport and as with any foreign travel you are trying to keep…

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The Trials and Tribulations of the Tribe…

Waking up in camp, it was a beautiful moderately warm morning with a stunning blue sky with some scattered fluffy clouds making it ever so slightly overcast. The temperature was that of a sunny spring day here in the UK, so you can forgive me for being greatly deceived by this. Once breakfast was over,…

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Discovering more than just wildlife…

I wake the following morning in my tent and all my chest and shoulders are burning and I feel hot… The rest of me is fine. I’d spent the previous day applying moisturiser with SPF to my face and whilst the temperatures on the Plains were that of a UK spring day, it was very…

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An Eerie and Disturbing Route to the Mountains…

The journey to Kisoro was long but it came with many redeeming and not so redeeming features. The Ugandan landscape is breathtaking, a patchwork of history as well as being a very fertile landscape with much of it showing agricultural use. There are many rainforests and rolling hills in Uganda, a vast contrast to the…

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Climbing a misty and mysterious mountain…

As we continued to travel towards the mountains, a child threw himself at the back of our 4×4. We were concerned for his safety and the driver slowed as we begged him to get off. He was determined not to. We finally reached the base of Mount Virunga…Child still attached, we got out into a…

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Crossing the Equator to the Lakes…

I was still buzzing from the experience of being in the presence of the gorillas and my time on Mainland Africa would be over with in a few days as I was due to head over to Zanzibar for some relaxation. We boarded the truck at 6am and began our journey to Lake Bunyonyi, it…

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