by Happy Kaingu | Jun 23, 2017 | Uncategorized
We kick off our slightly belated May news with an update on the heron chick. Well, it turned out that there were two chicks on two separate nests! Within 50m of each other. Herons like to nest communally and it seems that Goliath herons are no exception! anyway,...
by Happy Kaingu | May 11, 2017 | Uncategorized
“Drones” – love them or hate them, they are here to stay and are allowing people to get stills and video that formerly was possible only with chartering a helicopter at $$$$s of dollars. Even then you cannot fly a helicopter in places you can fly a...
by Happy Kaingu | May 8, 2017 | Uncategorized
So after the mega floods of March we were glad to welcome April. While the rains reduced they were by no means gone. We had long periods of glorious sunshine and then a good few days of heavy cloud cover and rains. The long periods of cloud brought nice cool...
by Happy Kaingu | Apr 7, 2017 | Uncategorized
So 2017. Thanks to a wind in the pacific our main area got flooded! Joking apart, the end of 2016 and early part of 2017 were forecast to be “La Nina” (Spanish for little girl) conditions. These are conditions that follow the more known “El...
by Happy Kaingu | Mar 30, 2017 | Uncategorized
Rivers are often written about as being arteries of lifeblood. For us the analogy is an apt one; the Kafue river is our lifeblood. We drink it, we live next to it and we base our whole lodge and it’s activities on it. Most of our guests arrive on it and all our...
