The End

This blog has come to an end.

Thank you so much to all followers and readers, it's been great fun.

Photos taken in the wild will be posted on my travel blog  from now on.

Cheers

Red Means Poison

Tortuguero National Park, Costa Rica

Flamingo

Lake Bogoria (Rift Valley), Kenya
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Nubian Wild Ass

Northern Kenya

Take notice of the mark on the shoulder, it's not a shadow! :-)

Kalandula Waterfalls

This photo of the former Duke of Bragança Waterfalls was taken in the early 70's when Angola was still a Portuguese colony

Beach Party

Boulders Beach, Cape Peninsula, South Africa
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Arenal

Active volcano in central Costa Rica

Ostrich

Ngorongoro Crater, Tanzania
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Heliconia (II)

Iguazu National Park, Argentina

Tropicbird

Cousin Island, Seychelles
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Summer Monsoon

Himalayan slope, Nepal

Dumbo

A youngster on the shore of Lake Manyara, Tanzania

On the Edge

Placencia, Belize

Sarus Crane

Keoladeo National Park
Bharatpur (Rajasthan), India

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Undisturbed

Ngorongoro Crater, Tanzania

Our Camp

Lake Turkana, northern Kenya

Tender Couple

Punta Tombo (Patagonia), Argentina
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Lake Manyara

Northern Tanzania

Duiker

Samburu National Reserve, Kenya

Flamingo

Lake Bogoria, Kenya
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Ewaso Nyiro River

Giraffe family, Samburu National Reserve, Kenya

Strangler Fig

Iguazu National Park, Argentina

These plants begin life as epiphytes, when their seeds, often bird-dispersed, germinate in crevices atop other trees. These seedlings grow their roots downward and envelop the host tree while also growing upward to reach into the sunlight zone above the canopy. An original support tree can sometimes die, so that the Strangler Fig becomes a "columnar tree" with a hollow central core. (Wikipedia)

Secretary Bird

Masai Mara National Reserve, Kenya

Its common name is popularly thought to derive from the crest of long quill-like feathers, lending the bird the appearance of a secretary with quill pens tucked behind his or her ear, as was once common practice. A more recent hypothesis is that "secretary" is borrowed from a French corruption of the Arabic saqr-et-tair or "hunter-bird". (Wikipedia)
The long legs, which increases the bird’s height to around 1.3 m tall, help him catching his favourite prey: snakes.
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Intruder

I found this Baboon on my balcony. We stared at each other for a while and then he jumped to the next bungallow.

Ngorongoro Crater, Tanzania

Resting in the Shade

MalaMala Game Reserve, South Africa

Ocellated Turkey

Tikal National Park, Guatemala
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It's Safari Time

MalaMala Game Reserve main lodge, South Africa

"H" Island

Beagle Channel (Tierra del Fuego), Argentina

Red-billed Hornbill

Samburu National Reserve, Kenya
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Deserted Beach

Manuel Antonio National Park, Costa Rica

Two Tall Guys

MalaMala Game Reserve, South Africa

Sea Lion

Peninsula Valdez (Patagonia), Argentina

17 Lions

Serengeti National Park, Tanzania

Augur Buzzard

Ngorongoro Crater, Tanzania

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Mother and Cub

Samburu National Reserve, Kenya

Koroli Desert

Northern Kenya

Fairy Tern

Cousin Island, Seychelles

Formerly a coconut plantation, this island was purchased in 1968 by the International Council for Bird Preservation and turned into a reserve.
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Very Close to Mr. Big

MalaMala Game Reserve, South Africa

Agua Azul

Chiapas, Mexico

Heading for Water

Buffalos in a queue (and some zebra in the foreground).

Ngorongoro Crater, Tanzania

Breakfast

MalaMala Game Reserve, South Africa

Egyptian Vulture

Mandawa (Rajasthan), India
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Adrenaline

20 minutes later we would be on that boat! :-)

Iguazu Falls, Argentina

Green Parrots

Madre de Dios River, Manu Biosphere Reserve, Peruvian Amazon

Above the Jungle Canopy

Birth of the day at the ancient Mayan City of Tikal

Tikal National Park, Guatemala

Seal Island

Cape Peninsula, South Africa

Wildebeest

MalaMala Game Reserve, South Africa

Big Male Baboon

... feeding on the vegetable leftovers of our lunch

Masai Mara National Reserve, Kenya