In September and October 2024, we travelled 4,200 kms in twenty days from Victoria Falls, through Chobe, Moremi, Kgaligadi, Fish River Canyon and Richtersveld to Cape Town. I was travelling with my cousins, Karen and Michelle Stodel from Cape Town and my nephew, Gordon Lycett from Brisbane, Australia. All the good photos in this article were taken by Gordon on his Samsung Galaxy Ultra 23S phone. Subjects that I failed to photograph properly with my 300mm lens were beautifully photographed by his phone. We were travelling in my 1999 Land Cruiser 105. We started the trip with 378,000 kms on the clock so it was inevitable that there would be a few maintenance issues en route. We were pulling my Echo 2 off road trailer with a roof tent. Karen and Michelle slept in the roof tent and Gordon and I each had our own ground tents. When I quote…
In March 2024 I travelled 3,500 kms in ten days, mainly in Namibia. I was travelling with my wife, Tibby, our daughter, Megan, and her partner, Tom Chisholm. Our route took us from Cape Town through the Namaqua and Richtersveld National Parks in South Africa and then in…
