This time of year is the season for gushing insincerity, contentious and lizard-like lobbying and many crocodile tears.
From last week: "I wept at the airstrip before flying out, I didn't want to leave" ... aah.... a Kicheche remainer. *
Spotters, meet Murray, no stranger to this mercurial mail-out and indeed one of Bush Camp’s favourite sons. Murray has been a regular for many years but this January has outdone himself, with a whole pick and mix of cats with their candy-faced cubs.
The Kicheche inbox is filled with many sorts of pictorial correspondence, some of it precious, much of it delightful yet whimsical flotsam
Mara North Maestro Jimmy Tinka captures marvellous 'frame' before the River pride captures young giraffe
Don't know where you spent Christmas this year, I don't suppose Jackie Turner really cares as she found herself almost knee-deep in cats of all sizes at Bush Camp. Lions with eyes still only half open and a suitably topical leaping leopard.
Kevin Rooney is one of Kicheche's favourite sons with hundreds of game drives augmenting his Conservancy masthead.
Over the last couple of weeks we have supported the wonderful Chris Packham & Paul Goldstein on their Exodus Travels "Even Wilder Night Out" tour raising funds for The Maa Trust rainwater harvest project.
Feline fisticuffs - Alpha male lion gets the treatment from this lioness after killing her cubs. This Big Cat fight captured by Paul Goldstein on his recent safari at Kicheche Bush Camp, Olare Motorogi Conservancy.
If you are going to pick a fight it is not just about numbers. Bantam weights should never get into the ring with Heavy weights, even if there are five of them.
