It was August 2021. I made the most of a rare break due to the pandemic and travelled to Zimbabwe with my family. A highlight was our stay by the banks of the Zambezi River in the far north-east with Carl Nicholson, a keen younger professional safari guide. In 2019 ...
Last month (in December 2019) A Step Ahead professional guide Dave Christensen was awarded the Zimbabwe Professional Hunters and Guides Association "Guide of the Year" accolade. Dave and all of us at A Step Ahead are thrilled. Dave cherishes this accolade because this association of skilled professionals are his peers, ...
One of my favourite national parks, Mana Pools in Zimbabwe, is very seasonal. It is an outstanding place to experience wildlife in the dry season, when wildlife congregates near the Zambezi River. That is when visitors are drawn to this phenomenal place and the chance of poaching being unnoticed is ...
After several years of conducting most of my safaris in East Africa, it has been wonderful to guide some safaris near home (Zimbabwe) again, and in very familiar territory. I had not been to Gonarezhou National Park in southeastern Zimbabwe for several years, and was recently blown away by the ...
As we circled the airstrip to land we saw a herd of about twenty elephant crowd around the edge of a waterhole to slake their thirst…. A prelude of what we were to experience in the next few days. When we left the airstrip we saw two magnificent sable bulls. ...
Congratulations Dave! The Wall Street Journal have just published an excellent article about Dave's guiding skills and the amazing safari experience possible in Zimbabwe. According to writer Tim Downey, who was on safari in Zimbabwe with Dave in June : "During eight days in the bush we've spotted lion, leopard, ...
....so armed with my trusty Smith and Wesson .44 magnum, we canoed out to a flat sandbar in the Zambezi River, and wallowed like hippo’s in the shallow water.
the park lived up to its reputation of having one of the largest concentrations of elephant on the African Continent
Large predators always have an ability to evoke primaeval feelings of fear, respect and intrigue.
There are few places in Africa where you can go and see a huge elephant bull standing up on his back legs ...
I have memories of us gliding silently past herds of waterbuck or buffalo as they kept a watchful eye on us, and watching elephant bulls cross the river.
