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Road trips filled with ART, flowers, family, friends, farming and even more art; travelling Chilo, Chimanimani, Chitungwiza and so many places in-between, as we reminisce on the last six months of 2025.

Posted on December 25, 2025 by wineandwilddogs

As a family we have a lot of ups and downs in the last part of 2025, as have all families, but in this blog I dwell on the positives – looking forward always!!! Our family plot (Kaya Nyala) at … Continue reading →

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Take Note! Look! Cheuka Harare Art Fair (CHAF) 2025

Posted on October 8, 2025 by wineandwilddogs

Cheuka is a Shona word that refers to the observation or noticing of both tangible and intangible things that surround us. Look; the act of noticing, noting, remarking, or observing; observation by the senses or intellect; cognizance; Cheuka Harare Art … Continue reading →

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Salt and Hot Springs: Culture and Snail Shells

Posted on July 6, 2023 by wineandwilddogs

fascinated always by giant african snail shells, storytelling and snail shell stories…. Continue reading →

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Painted Wolves at Chilo Gorge: Wine and Wild Dogs galore!

Posted on April 26, 2019 by wineandwilddogs

Painted Wolves will be returning to Chilo Gorge Safari Lodge SOON! whether you call them by their full latin name Lycaon pictus, or by their other names African wild dogs, Painted Wolves, or Painted dogs… they are all the same … Continue reading →

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sweet/bitter: senuko seasons past and yet to come

Posted on January 10, 2018 by wineandwilddogs

Watch out! Many gorgeous flowers such as my Adenium swazicum, harbour a resident crab spider, cute but deadly…(if you are the size of a fly)… Bitter Sweet reminisces… Our year past, 2017, at our bush house, Tsavene, has been one … Continue reading →

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Mahove means “Fish” and it is also the name of a special camp on the wild Runde River….

Posted on June 1, 2017 by wineandwilddogs

Mahove means “Fish” and it is also the name of a special camp on the wild Runde River…. Here is an afternoon view of the that wild and fish-filled river from Mahove tent number 4, just to whet your ‘appetite”! … Continue reading →

Posted in adventure travel, Africa, African Safari, african wildlife, amphibians, art, baobab, beauty, bio diversity, birding, birds, bush camps, Chilo Gorge Safari Lodge, clive stockil, community conservation, cooking, culture, eco-tourism, elephants, endangered species, Fish, fishing, food, food culture, frogs, gonarezhou national park, landscape, Lin Barrie Art, lowveld, owls, photography, predators, prey, Rainy. Season, reptiles, Rivers, safari, serenity, taste, travel, turtles, Uncategorized, waterbirds, wilderness, wine, zimbabwe | Tagged africa, animals, art, baobab, Chilo Gorge Safari Lodge, Clive Stockil, conservation, cooking, culture, eco-tourism, elephants, environment, Fish, Giant Kingfisher, gonarezhou, gorgeous photo, landscape, Lin Barrie Art, Mahove Camp, nature, runde river, soft shelled Turtle, Tiger Fish, tilapia, zimbabwe | 4 Comments

Bringing the Outside In; Greenery and landscape inspires me this month…

Posted on May 18, 2017 by wineandwilddogs

Bringing the outside in…my paintings currently are reflecting the landscapes around me, pulling the feeling of being outdoors inside… and I am tickled that current decor trends embrace this greenery theme…Strelitzias being very prominent! We have seen water water everywhere … Continue reading →

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Cleome by any other name would taste as sweet…..good ‘slow’ food at Chilo Gorge!

Posted on March 8, 2016 by wineandwilddogs

Beautiful Cleome Gynandra is growing fast in our Gonarezhou area with the recent rain. Thomas Mutombeni, head guide at Chilo Gorge, says: “it is a food plant, the leaves of which the Shangaans cook and eat like spinach. Shangaans call it … Continue reading →

Posted in adventure travel, Africa, African flora, African Safari, beauty, bio diversity, bush camps, Chilo Gorge, Chilo Gorge Safari Lodge, community conservation, conservation, conservation education, conservation news, cooking, culture, eco-tourism, edible plant, education, flowers, food, food culture, gardens, gardens and flowers, gonarezhou national park, great limpopo transfrontier conservation Area, Greater Limpopo Transfrontier Park, home grown food, homegrown, landscape, organic slow food, sharing, slow food, taste, travel, treasure, wilderness, zimbabwe, Zimbabwe Parks | Tagged africa, Chilo Gorge Safari Lodge, Cleome gynandra, Cleome macrophylla, conservation, cooking, culture, eco-tourism, edible plant, environment, flowers, food, gardens, GLTFCA, gonarezhou, gorgeous photo, health food, indigenous, landscape, slow food, wildlife, zimbabwe | Leave a comment

Of Elephants, Wild Dogs and Full Moons, Good friends, Venus and Jupiter…..

Posted on July 1, 2015 by wineandwilddogs

A full moon rising tonight…and the close, very close, proximity of Venus and Jupiter will be spectacular… hanging over the deck at Chilo Gorge Safari Lodge, where Clive and I are at the moment. We have just come from Senuko where … Continue reading →

Posted in Africa, African Safari, African wild dogs, african wildlife, african wildlife conservation fund, animal rights, anti poaching, bio diversity, Chilo Gorge, community conservation, conservation news, cooking, eco-tourism, education, elephants, endangered species, Lin Barrie Art, Painted Wolf Wines, Senuko, taste, wine | Tagged africa, African wild dogs, African Wildlife Conservation Fund, Alastair Pole, Chilo Gorge Safari Lodge, Clive Stockil, conservation, eco-tourism, elephants, environment, full moon, full moon rising, gorgeous photo, Jupiter, landscape, Painted Wolf Wines, Save Valley Conservancy, Senuko, Venus, wild dogs, wildlife, wine, zimbabwe | 2 Comments

Wine and Wild Dog weekend; great tastes and conservation at Chilo Gorge safari Lodge…

Posted on April 27, 2015 by wineandwilddogs

Following the great success of previous wine and wild dog events in 2011 and 2013, held by Painted Wolf Wines and the wild dog research projects in Zimbabwe, we are thrilled to announce a taste and conservation sensation at Chilo Gorge Safari Lodge in … Continue reading →

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Category Archives: taste

Painted Wolves at Chilo Gorge: Wine and Wild Dogs galore!

sweet/bitter: senuko seasons past and yet to come

Mahove means “Fish” and it is also the name of a special camp on the wild Runde River….

Bringing the Outside In; Greenery and landscape inspires me this month…

Of Elephants, Wild Dogs and Full Moons, Good friends, Venus and Jupiter…..

Wine and Wild Dog weekend; great tastes and conservation at Chilo Gorge safari Lodge…

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