Category Archives: Save River

The Njuzu of the Save River; Mermaid or Myth…you decide, I know what I believe..

Posted on January 22, 2017 by wineandwilddogs

The Njuzu of the Save River , as told by Nzanza Sekai in his recent excellent article on the Save River and Birchenough Bridge, called “Celebrating Rain and the flooding of the Save River”… is a story long told by … Continue reading →

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The Road Less Travelled is ours; River rescues and Boating on the mighty Save River ……

Posted on January 22, 2017 by wineandwilddogs

The road less travelled is ours… we have boated across the mighty Save River, Mahenye Island in the distance… and have been the only human adventurers to explore the newly washed landscape of Gonarezhou….along rain-puddled green-flanked roads inhabited by rolling … Continue reading →

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Mahove Camp and Baobabs; Night sounds and True Wilderness

Posted on July 5, 2016 by wineandwilddogs

A night of the deepest sounds of Africa, at Mahove camp on the Runde river. After a gentle, magical afternoon of sketching the baobabs close to camp, whilst listening to a cow herd of elephants splashing their way across the … Continue reading →

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Deeper, and deeper, into Africa!

Posted on May 2, 2016 by wineandwilddogs

The HAC Caravan lifts effortlessly and we wing our way over the neat cluster of high rise buildings that puncture Harare’s CBD, surrounded in the south by sprawling fast growing hi-density suburbia- row upon row of little box houses standing … Continue reading →

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Tracker Dogs in Gonarezhou, protecting our elephants…

Posted on March 15, 2016 by wineandwilddogs

Chilo Gorge Safari Lodge has a wonderful variety of elephant sightings to offer guests… From the Lodge and room balconies we often see these gorgeous animals crossing the great Save River….often with tiny babies helped along through deep water by … Continue reading →

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An amazing mollusk: the Giant African Land Snail, revered totem of the Chauke Clan…

Posted on March 13, 2016 by wineandwilddogs

I love sketching the shells of these snails, so sculptural…. Achatina fulica is a species of land snail in the family Achatinidae, known commonly as the giant African land snail. Wikipedia says: Outside of its native range this snail thrives … Continue reading →

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Baobabs and Wire; Elephants and Mud

Posted on January 11, 2016 by wineandwilddogs

Early morning on the deck at Chilo leads into a fabulous day of exploring the newly wet Gonarezhou…on the lookout for our guests favorite animal…Elephants!….today strangely absent today from the landscape! They must have moved far and wide with the little … Continue reading →

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Baby rhino “George”, born in about the same month as his namesake, Prince George

Posted on September 14, 2015 by wineandwilddogs

September 2013, Chairman of Lowveld Rhino Trust, Clive Stockil, was awarded the Prince William Award for Conservation in Africa by the Prince himself, who has been the Royal Patron for Tusk Trust since 2005. This was the first time that … Continue reading →

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Mahove Camp, and the Junction are spectacular wilderness areas to explore from Chilo Gorge Lodge,

Posted on July 31, 2015 by wineandwilddogs

The trip across the Save River from Chilo Gorge Lodge and and into Gonarezhou is always exciting… with fabulous water birds to be spotted on the sand, such as this little Pratincole…… and many vultures still to be seen…thank goodness…Vultures … Continue reading →

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Bathawks and Baobabs

Posted on April 19, 2012 by wineandwilddogs

At Chilo Gorge lodge…. Bathawks are high on my mind at the moment, after watching one approach us through the red dusk, high above the Save river, last night. We stood transfixed and entranced, on the wooden deck … Continue reading →

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