On safari-- wildlife and nature photos


Guest photographerGeoff Gates

We live only a few hundred kilometres apart in Australia, but I didn't meet "Gatesy" until one morning at breakfast in Harare, before we joined up for a walking safari in the wilds of Zimbabwe
Geoff had a few safaris head-start on me, and I'm grateful for the experience that he happily passed on. No doubt our shared nationality had a lot to do with this, but I'm sure our taste for safaris designed for the less pampered traveller played a big part too.
This is a small selection of Geoff's favourite photographs.
Point to the small images for captions, click to see the larger images.
Elephants dash to water ©Geoff Gates

Buffalo & lion: discretion is the better part of valour ©Geoff GatesLion with roan kill ©Geoff GatesMale lion ©Geoff Gates

Female cheetah ©Geoff Gates Cheetahs on kill ©Geoff Gates Cheetahs- no time to waste ©Geoff GatesCheetah on watch ©Geoff Gates

Giraffes in unison ©Geoff Gates

A leopard called Amber ©Geoff GatesLeopard ©Geoff Gates

Wild dog pups in den ©Geoff Gates Wild dogs networking ©Geoff Gates Pups awaiting the outcome of the hunt ©Geoff Gates

White-faced owl ©Geoff GatesLilac-breasted roller ©Geoff Gates

Elephants on the move ©Geoff GatesElephant herd ©Geoff Gates

Index of chapters

  • Portfolio (5 pages)
  • African slideshows
  • Australian slideshow

  • Guest photographers
  • Spots 'n' blotches
  • Browsers & grazers
  • Okavango Delta
  • Walking in Zimbabwe
  • Faces on safari
  • The Outback (3 pages)
  • The River Murray
  • Wildlife carers

  • Introducing Linyanti
  • Cheetah brothers
  • Selinda's birdlife
  • Kenya's Masai Mara
  • Big cats
  • The Adelaide Hills
  • Aussie birds
  • Niugini days

  • Lions of Selinda
  • Heavyweight herbivores
  • Kwando Reserve
  • Kenya: Samburu
  • Elephants
  • Kangaroo Island
  • Victoria
  • About Afrigalah
  • Links

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