These Cheetah photographs from the Mala Mala Game Preserve in South Africa and the Qorokwe Camp in the Okavango Delta of Bostwana. They were taken in the first half of March.

The first set are of a mother and two adolescents and hadn’t been seen since Christmas week at Mala Mala.

The second set of a mother and six much younger cubs was at Qorokwe Camp. They were being seen every day, and were sandwiched between two prides of Lions. The camp guides were amazed at how well the mother was doing keeping all six fed and safe.

I’m slowly going through my pictures from my March Africa trip. I’ve finally gotten to my Lion pictures. These are from the Mala Mala Game Preserve in South Africa and the Qorokwe Camp in the Okavango Delta  of Bostwana.

After visiting Cape Town, we spent the next leg of our trip at the MalaMala Game Preserve which shares a twelve mile boundary with Kruger National Park. We had a great guide and managed to see the “Big 5” on our first afternoon at the camp.

On our second day in the preserve, we got to track this Leopard for about a mile before she settled down in a tree.

I was in Southern Africa for two weeks in the beginning of March, and I’m going to be slowly posting photographs from the trip. I thought I would start with pictures from the Boulders Beach Penguin colony. This colony established themselves in a residential beach community starting in 1983, south of Cape Town changing the neighborhood! African Penguins used to be known as jackass penguins because of their distinctive braying.

I spent a week in the Arctic cruising around the Svalbard islands of Norway, in late June. One two days, we had the good fortune to watch an adult female and her two cubs. One the first day, they explored a small island eating Barnacle Goose eggs. On the second day, they were eating Minke Whale meat.

It was a wonderful experience seen from the safety of a Zodiac boat.