June, 2026
June, 2026
May, 2026
May, 2026
December, 2024
October, 2024
September, 2024
August, 2024
August, 2024
August, 2024
In March 2026 I went on an expedition cruise ship that sailed from Ushuaia at the tip of Tierra del Fuego and visited the Antarctic Peninsula, South Georgia and the Falklands. The ship was the Douglas Mawson, launched in October 2025 and the cruise was run by an Australian company called Aurora Expeditions. My place on the trip was arranged for me by Wildlife Worldwide, a British based wildlife travel company.
We went to Ethiopia with friends Mike and Colleen on a tailor-made trip arranged by Wildlife Worldwide in February 2026. Starting and ending in Addis Ababa we visited Chebera-Chuchura National Park, Aregash eco-lodge near the town of Yirga Alem, Lake Awassa, Senkelle Hartebeest Sanctuary and the Bale Mountains National Park.
A two part wildlife trip to Australia organised for us by Inala Nature started with a week in the S.W. corner of Australia, south of Perth, led by Inala guide Cat Davidson, before we moved on to Tasmania.
In December 2025 my wife Julia and I visited Tasmania as part of a private wildlife trip organised by Inala Nature, a birding and wildlife tour company based on Bruny Island in Tasmania.
In November 2024 we spent two weeks in Namibia, organised by Naturetrek and led by local agents Safari Wise. The trip included visits to the Namib Desert, Skeleton Coast and Etosha National Park.
In May/June 2024, a very pleasant week was spent in the Danube Delta region of Romania together with ten other participants and two tour leaders, organised by Oriole Birding Tours. Two nights in a guest house in Tulcea was followed by five nights on a comfortable floating hotel.
Accompanied by my friend Mike Bird, I went on a birding trip to Arunachal Pradesh in N.E. India in March 2024. The trip was organised and led by our Indian friend Abid Rehman, who runs “Eastern Geography Tours” based in Assam. We were also accompanied by Abid’s knowledgeable assistant Arun and Jitoo who was our excellent driver.
This was a ‘Greenwings’ trip in search of butterflies in southern Greece in June 2022. There were 10 fellow participants and our leaders were Alice Hunter and Simon & Anne Spencer.
In May 2023 we went on a Naturetrek trip to Sabah in the Malaysian section of Borneo with a focus on mammals. After a couple of nights at Sepilok to visit the Orangutan Rehabilitation Centre we spent a week in Deramakot Forest Reserve and then finished with a few days on the Kinabatangan River.
My wife Julia and I went to The Gambia with our friends Mike Bird and Colleen Welfare at the beginning of February 2023. It was a ‘tailor made’ trip organised by Naturetrek and we had an excellent local birding guide called Dembo Sonko.
I have been fascinated with wildlife since I was a small boy and thankfully that fascination is still with me now that I am retired. The travel bug struck when I went to work in Malawi for a couple of years in the late 1970s and my career as a research biologist working on insect pest management provided further opportunities to visit many interesting parts of the world.
My wife and I now indulge in frequent trips to see and photograph wildlife, purely as a hobby, and this website displays some of the more acceptable shots from those trips.