Fish Eagle Safaris

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.

04/16/2024

These guys made a kill the next morning, unfortunately we weren't in the area but I heard it was utter chaos! What an experience.

04/08/2024

African Safari Update - April 2024 -

The month of April is when the safari season just starts to kick into gear.  In Southern Africa it is the first of the ‘shoulder season’ months, with the end of March signaling the end of the green or low season. This year, with considerably less than average rain having fallen in much of South...

02/23/2024

African Safari Update - February 2024 -

We’re well into 2024 and all we can say is wow!  The year started off with a bang and it hasn’t stopped. We are fielding more inquiries for African travel than we probably ever have in 30+ plus years and so are our colleagues in the Safari Professionals of the Americas. It appears that internat...

12/28/2023

African Safari Update - December 2023 -

The story of our November Namibia trip ended with a couple of nights in the heart of one of the driest deserts of the world, the Namib. It was the final chapter of a pretty good book, as travel tomes go. A book that had plenty of drama, some comic relief, memorable characters and enduring memories.....

12/16/2023

What is it that attracts us most to Namibia, in southwestern Africa? Its astonishingly beautiful desert & dune landscapes, its fascinating people, its diverse wildlife? On a recent trip we experienced some of all of those and came away with renewed passion for this vast, sparsely populated country. One lasting impression of this trip, which included the Etosha area, parts of the Kaokoveld, the Hoanib River Valley, Skeleton Coast National Park, Swakopmund and Sossusvlei? That the wildlife experience is underrated. We saw lots of animals, often in arid areas where you'd least expect them. Here are a few from this trip, and a couple from Jason's visit to the same area, earlier.

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.

05/04/2023

African Safari Update - May 2023 -

Seeing my first tiger in the wild was a heart-stopping, jaw-dropping moment, instantaneously rendering every one of my collective imaginings and thoughts about tigers moot. The real-life, eye to eye experience of seeing one right there in front of you, in its natural habitat, is all but indescrib...

01/20/2023

African Safari Update January 2022 -

How many people have seen snow leopards in the wild?  About as many as have traveled beyond the atmosphere of our planet. This month's newsletter comes to you from the Ladakh Province in northern India, one of the few places in the world where you can eyeball one of these enigmatic ‘grey ghosts.....

12/21/2022

African Safari Update December 2022 -

From the Editor’s Desk My heart broke a little bit in Tsavo a few weeks ago at the start of our recently concluded Fish Eagle Safaris Kenya trip. Tsavo East was as dry as it had been in 40 years, and the animals were stressed to the breaking point. Small groups of seemingly listless elephants were...

12/09/2022

How many big cats can you realistically expect to see on an African safari trip? It depends on where you go but over the span of a couple of weeks in Kenya, you should see all of them. Which we managed to do on the Fish Eagle Safaris trip in November, which included Tsavo East, Laikipia and the Masai Mara.

12/01/2022

In November, Fish Eagle Safaris' Kathy and Bert Duplessis visited Karen Blixen Camp. The visit fell on a weekend while school was not in session, but thanks to Lillian Kathambi the One World Futbol and school supplies were delivered to The Mara United School on our behalf. Thank you Lillian!

The Mara United School is a boarding school only a few kilometers from Karen Blixen Camp. The school has approximately 320 students from ages 4 through 15 years old, from Kindergarten to Grade 8. Parents of many of the children are employed as staff at Karen Blixen Camp. The school is owned and managed by the local community and it is approved by the Ministry of Education and National Environment Management Authority.

10/28/2022

African Safari Update October 2022 🐘 -

FROM THE EDITOR'S DESK This last month has been a particularly busy one here at Fish Eagle Safaris, with two of our team members traveling in Africa - at the same time - for a while there. Lyndon and Christine scouting some properties in Kenya and Tanzania and Jason exploring several safari areas i...

09/14/2022

African Safari Update September 2022 🐘 -

Nomad Tanzania is one of the original East African safari companies. For the past 20-plus years they’ve owned and operated a collection of outstanding small safari camps in all of the best wildlife areas of Tanzania.  Find out more about the founding partners and the people we currently work with...

08/17/2022

African Safari Update August 2022 🐘 - https://mailchi.mp/fisheaglesafaris/african-safari-update-august-2022