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Leopard lovers and a rival at Chilo Gorge Safari Lodge!

Posted on January 12, 2018 by wineandwilddogs

7th January at Chilo Gorge Safari Lodge: No guests today- they left with a packed lunch by 4 am – I sat on the deck after seeing them off and enjoyed this sunrise, a hippo swimming upriver towards me, you … 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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Sandforest in the wet season; Millipedes and butterflies at Mahenye

Posted on January 7, 2018 by wineandwilddogs

A wet season wonderland awaits in the sandforest of Mahenye…life in the raw, strange and wonderful, beautiful and fierce…from the gorgeous wild hibiscus  in the sand forest near Chilo, admired by Rich Thornycroft…. to the frantic millipede desperately trying to escape … Continue reading →

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Elephants and orphans, Painted and Real…

Posted on September 9, 2017 by wineandwilddogs

I am tickled to have been part for a “One by One” initiative with Kikis Gallery, for elephant awareness….painting three dimensions is fun and inspiring, especially when painting a baby elephant! John Kotze, fellow artist, produced this funky elephant who … Continue reading →

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Baobab skins get a coat of chain mail; Elephants get something else to eat…..

Posted on August 26, 2017 by wineandwilddogs

I am always tickled by the look-alike skins of baobabs and elephants…from baobab trunk… to elephant trunk… and the wrinkled limbs such as this foreleg… and this tiny little leg disappearing into the baobab trunk below…has that baby really just … Continue reading →

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Bees, Baobabs and Baboons……

Posted on August 13, 2017 by wineandwilddogs

Bees, baobabs and baboons -a wonderful trio of treats for us at Chilo Gorge Safari Lodge… Surrounded  we are at Chilo and in the Save Valley Conservancy, by baobabs of all sizes and characters, some awesomely misshapen, some stately… All … Continue reading →

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Iyachisa mulilo…..”Fire burns”, a Changana totem….

Posted on August 5, 2017 by wineandwilddogs

Of snails, of culture, of food, fire and art…read on by hitting the link! Iyachisa mulilo…..”Fire burns”, a Changana totem…. Iyachisa Mulilo, a two metre acrylic painting by Lin Barrie:

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The Ivory Trail, following in the footsteps of giants….

Posted on June 11, 2017 by wineandwilddogs

Starting from Chilo Gorge Safari Lodge on a cool morning in May, Clive and I, plus the Chilo camp team of Victor, Richard and Chef Peter Chisasa, depart for the south of Gonarezhou, passing the gorgeous Chilojo Cliffs.. fording the … 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 →

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Burnt Earth and Wild dogs go together…..

Posted on March 11, 2017 by wineandwilddogs

My artistic collaboration with Burnt Earth ceramics at The Studio is wildly exciting, and involves Wild dogs! Ceramics was aa deep interest for me at art college, and at last I get to combine it with my wild dog art….Yay! I … Continue reading →

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