A Typical Day in Kruger National Park

Kruger National Park

  One of our favourite places for wildlife photography is South Africa’s Kruger National Park (see the two previous postings). This time, we’ll outline how we spend a typical day in the park. We generally set our alarm for 4:30 am, have a quick breakfast, and be ready to leave soon after the restcamp gates open. Visitors are allowed on park roads only during gate… Read moreA Typical Day in Kruger National Park

How to Visit Kruger National Park

Leopard, Kruger National Park

In the last posting, we talked about our recent trip to South Africa’s Kruger National Park, and how this is one of our favourite places for wildlife photography. This time we’ll look at the logistics of planning an independent visit. The good news is that, not only is this one of the largest and most famous wildlife parks in Africa, it is also among the… Read moreHow to Visit Kruger National Park

Wildlife Photography at Kruger National Park

Lion, Kruger, wildlife

  We recently returned from a visit to South Africa’s Kruger National Park to photograph wildlife. Like our previous trips to this world-famous wildlife park, this time was nothing short of amazing. We spent 19 days in the park. On five of those days we saw all of the Big Five (lion, leopard, elephant, buffalo, and rhino), and other days almost all of them. We… Read moreWildlife Photography at Kruger National Park

Exploring the Columbia Icefields

Ice Explorer

The massive Columbia Icefield is the highlight of the spectacular Icefields Parkway, a driving route of 230 kilometres between Lake Louise and Jasper in the Canadian Rockies. Encompassing parts of Banff and Jasper National Parks, you can see seven major glaciers and around 25 smaller ones along the way. Things really get interesting about half way along where glacier tongues extending from the Columbia Icefield… Read moreExploring the Columbia Icefields

Hoodoo Hunting in Dinosaur Provincial Park

Hoodoos in evening light, Dinosaur Provincial Park, Alberta

  Approaching Dinosaur Provincial Park in southeast Alberta, we come to a valley rim where the land suddenly drops into a vast expanse of spectacular badlands, the largest anywhere in Canada. The park was designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site in part because of the landscape, but also because it has the world’s largest deposits of dinosaur fossils from the Late Cretaceous period – about… Read moreHoodoo Hunting in Dinosaur Provincial Park