Fish Eagle Safaris

10/15/2024

African Safari Update - October 2024 -

As children, my three siblings and I spent our winter vacations mostly inside Kruger National Park in the traditional South African style. Just under two weeks or so on a self-drive - mostly self-catered - safari, split among public rest camps such as Skukuza, Olifants, Satara and Punda Maria. We we...

08/26/2024

African Safari Update - August 2024 -

Being on safari in Africa is synonymous with excitement, adventure and action. Extend your safari by a few days on the coast or better yet an island somewhere, and you can take the experience from hard rock to easy listening in a matter of hours. Boots in the morning and flip flops by nightfall. Whi...

07/24/2024

African Safari Update - July 2024 -

Madagascar for me, has been an on and off love affair. Mostly of the long distance kind but always smoldering just below the surface. Just an image, a song or a thought away from being back where it all began in 1999. It was infatuation at first sight when I saw my first ring-tailed lemur at Berenty...

06/24/2024

African Safari Update - June 2024 -

I found the Africa I was looking for in Tanzania and Kenya recently. I found it in the briefest of eye to eye contact with a migrating zebra in the Serengeti, in the boundless energy of baby Thomson’s gazelles playfully bouncing around the open savannah, in pairs of Burchells’s zebras cozily res...

06/15/2024

No Africa trip is complete without a sighting of a Secretarybird, at least in my book. We saw so many in the Serengeti and the Mara this last May, likely around 30 or so. Not many of them were willing subject (always walking away), but I did capture one or two. And several other birds in the process. Here are a few.

05/28/2024

Kathy and I spent the last few days in a couple of private conservancies to the north of the Masai Mara National Park, at Saruni Leopard Hill, Hemingway's Ol Seki, Saruni Mara and now Kicheche Mara Camp. One thing they all have in common: being able to drive off-road, often a crucial element for successful wildlife photography. Several of my photos taken here would have been near impossible to get from a long distance.

05/25/2024

Want to see some lions on safari? There's no place like the Serengeti in Tanzania - or the Masai Mara in Kenya. In just a few days we must have seen close to 50 different lions already. Here are a few.

05/22/2024

African Safari Update - May 2024 -

It only takes a day back in Africa to remember why we missed it so much.  It only takes a single morning drive in the Serengeti to be reminded why it is the quintessential African safari experience. The Mt. Everest of wildlife sanctuaries, the Serengeti is without equal in terms of the totality of ...

05/18/2024

Made it to Entara's Olmara tented camp on the eastern side of the central Serengeti. An adventurous drive along a muddy, rough track to get here, but expertly managed by our guide Said Kotoku. Here are a few more pics taken in the area over the last couple of days.

10/16/2023

African Safari Update - October 2023 -

We are often asked about the best times to travel to specific areas and destinations within Africa. Understandably so. If you’re keen to experience the annual wildebeest and zebra migration in East Africa, you’re not going to enjoy being in the southern Serengeti in August, when the migration is...

09/18/2023

African Safari Update - September 2023 -

What do you bring back from a trip to Africa? Photos and videos of course. Maybe a few small gifts or a pair of colorful kikoi pants, hand stitched in Shela. Beyond that, the intangibles. Memories which could never be captured electronically. Gigabytes of recollections of incidents big and small whi...

09/16/2023

Having spent much of the summer in Africa, Fish Eagle Safaris' Bert and Kathy observed several memorable wildlife scenes. A particularly unusual one was seeing a black-backed jackal trying to prevent a mob of vultures taking over an impala carcass. The jackal repeatedly charged into the vultures, in a totally fearless manner. Here are a few of the photos, taken in Ruaha National Park in Tanzania. In the end the vultures prevailed...

08/21/2023

African Safari Update - August 2023 -

What are the three most important things about a successful safari, which I re-learn on every Africa trip? Competent professional guiding is paramount. Almost nothing else comes close. What does come close? Incorporating diversity at every level and being conservation-minded in one’s choice of a ...

07/17/2023

African Safari Update - July 2023 -

Our newsletter this month features Mashatu Game Reserve in the Tuli Block of south-eastern Botswana, an area which we discovered many years ago and which we keep returning to. Mashatu remains high on our list of safari recommendations as an enjoyable, animal and bird-rich destination where off-road....

06/14/2023

African Safari Update - June 2023 -

The best destination for a first safari? The ideal country for a ‘one and done’ safari? The classic of all classic safari areas in Africa? Kenya, Kenya and Kenya. 

05/25/2023

Sundowners after a great day in Amboseli.

05/23/2023

First mammal of our Kenya trip - this cheeky Sykes’ monkey in the garden at Manzili House, our digs for the night in Nairobi. Had a great chat with the owner Vanessa Roumeguere who shares our passion for the Swahili Coast and Lamu/Shela.

05/23/2023

Such a pleasure to spend some time with our longtime friend and fellow Africa aficionado Clemson Smith-Muniz over dinner at the TWA Hotel in NYC, en route to Kenya.