Shenton Safaris

Eliott the One Eyed Leopard

User — Sat, 04 Sep 2010 09:44:02 +0000

Phil Branham was kind enough to send us this picture of Eliott the one-eyed leopard. So named after Pat’s Uncle who also had only one eye. For those of you who are new to our newsletters this year we first met Eliott as a small cub just before the rains last year. He had been attacked [...]

Mating Lions

User — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 12:07:15 +0000

It was during the night drive and being their first night at the camp when they had just explained to me that they had already visited two countries and had never seen mating lions. We were on the drive for about thirty minutes and just at Hippo hospital I saw a lion. I grabbed my [...]

Honey Badgers

User — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 06:12:31 +0000

It had been a long day and my last guests of June had left earlier on in the afternoon. My team and I had turned down the camp for the day and I was looking forward to an early night and a good night’s sleep before my first guests of July arrived! I knew that wanting [...]

Office Africa August 2010

User — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 14:32:24 +0000

Office Africa – August 2010 Hi All, As you may have seen in the blog, one second I was happily working away in my riverside office and the next I was being medivacced out to Joburg. I spent the last two weeks in July in hospital. It was far from fun! Anyway I’m back, fit as a fiddle and [...]

Rare Sighting

User — Thu, 26 Aug 2010 14:26:53 +0000

09/07/2010 It was a request by the guests to see the rare roan antelope so that is what we set out to do. It was about a 20 kilometer drive away from the river just for the chance that we may get a glimpse. The trip was a success as we came across the roan antelope. [...]

Patrick and the Monitor – the update…

User — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 11:58:27 +0000

Chandos has come in with the following: “I thought you were around when Patrick and I came back from a walk with this picture of the stunned monitor lizard ! This was to show off Patrick’s speed and guiding skills. Despite the Photographic evidence it seems my reputation is such that nobody believed me!!!.The truth is [...]

Hide and Seek

webmaster — Mon, 23 Aug 2010 09:48:40 +0000

Hide and Seek I’m sitting on a wooden bench in the dusty darkness of the ‘Last Waterhole’ hide, staring through a narrow slit in the thatching grass, when suddenly the scene before me erupts. Without warning, a martial eagle angles in fast and low, bisecting two acacias behind the pool. Wings swept back and talons extended, [...]

Sunday Express

webmaster — Mon, 23 Aug 2010 09:23:29 +0000

Zambia: South Luangwa No, I wasn’t dreaming. There was definitely something moving around outside. There it was again: a sort of rustling and, more worrying, a munching. I crept from my bed and peered out into the shadows. Nothing. Had I imagined it? Slowly my eyes adjusted to the darkness. I could make out the thatched bar, [...]

Hyena-Lion-Mwamba

User — Fri, 20 Aug 2010 12:56:22 +0000

Ian Friend 10th of July 2010 It had been a quiet day at Mwamba bush camp all in all, but that was to change! At about midnight a lone hyena had decided to chance his luck and see if any scraps had been left out. In front of the staff compound is an outside tap and an [...]

Pat and the Monitor

User — Fri, 20 Aug 2010 12:48:33 +0000

Our repeat guests Chandos and Sue sent this pic of Pat holding a large Monitor Lizard by the tail. I’m not quite sure what the story is behind this one and Patrick is on leave so I’m opening the floor to the Ellis’s