This week our favourite is Leanne Cockayne. She had had her night disturbed as some local lions (Tikki’s daughters) had brought down a zebra close to the Valley Camp massage and aromatherapy chalet.
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
Kevin Rooney is one of Kicheche's favourite sons with hundreds of game drives augmenting his Conservancy masthead.
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.
A young leopard ransacks a warthog's burrow in Olare Motorogi Conservancy, Masai Mara, Kenya.
When the combined weight of knowledge from three veteran guides with over 100,000 game drives tells me a leopard has had her cubs within the last few days, I am inclined to believe them. The soft folds of fur near her tail confirm this as does her behavior. Fig’s well documented pregnancy is over.
