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View to a kill
20th October 2013
by Mark Hawkins
Another travel post from a 2009 trip to South Africa. This one from the safari section. Sabie Sands is a private conservancy with no physical borders to its sanitised and vast neighbour, Kruger Park. It has the bonus of being out of the obvious tourist rat-run, or so we’re told, and walking amongst wild […]
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Changing a Leopard’s spots
22nd September 2013
by Mark Hawkins
These travel words and pictures are about releasing a wild Leopard back into the South African bushveld, from a trip in Summer 2009.Gripping the back of the untamed Leopard’s neck with my left hand and cradling its throat with my right, I distinctly feel a low murmur from within. In this heightened sense of alert, […]