Following earlier critique of existing systems (SAFRING, EWT and Vultures Namibia) which were supposed to be ‘effective’ in sharing information with joe public and vulture ringers on tagged vultures re-sighted by them in southern africa, and not really getting anywhere,…
I’ve been looking for an opportune moment to respond to the peculiar notion of an ‘Education for All (EFA)’ future in Africa without teachers, thanks to mobile technology. Which sounds just like another ‘Negropontism’. Donald Clark has made some biting…
I’ve excerpted most of this article below – with due credit to the Namibian newspaper, and Dudley Viall (‘mojo’) for his excellent cartoon of Namibia’s founding President Sam Nujoma catching fish from his deck-chair at Agate Beach south of Moewe…
photo courtesy KingBob 2013 Recently back from a coastal angling expedition with friends Dave and KingBob, I have to admit that I’ve never really been very good at catching ‘size‘ west coast Steenbras Lithognathus aureti, also known as seabream (oder Westkusten-Streifenbrasse). The…
It’s been some 24 years that Liz and I have had the privilege of living on this gorgeous piece of land just 17 odd kms from the centre of Windhoek, as the crow flies. We still get to be surprised…
A first grainy photograph of a large leopard captured by our camera trap at the waterhole last night! How cool is that?
In reaction to a flurry of distribution list commentary with pre-conceptions on what copyright is, I thought to bring some order to the conversation, as follows: For the record, copyright is an oft-maligned *legal* concept, giving the creator of an…
How cool is this – picture placement much better than before – 3 zebras at NARREC waterhole
It certainly has been quite a year for wildlife on our place outside windhoek! What with brazilians of vultures, brown hyaenas, honey-badgers and a cheetah kill, I forgot to repost the pic Liz and I got of the african…
Having suspected donkey/zebra tracks on the property, we put up a camera trap at our waterhole to get down to the truth – and voila! Two adults and a youngster, drinking at night – the quality isn’t quite sorted out…
tatejoris; personally speaking... 