Our Journey Half Moon Island From King George Island, the ship heads to Half Moon Island between Livingston and Greenwich Islands in the McFarlane Strait, a small semi-circular island consisting of statuesque igneous pillars linked by 'tombolas' of rock and gravel. It is home to a chinstrap penguin colony (and the ever-present skuas). We...

My husband and I have travelled a lot since we got together in 2005. We don’t do beach holidays and have enjoyed far flung adventures such as climbing Conan Doyle’s legendary Mount Roraima tepui in Venezuela, swimming to the Devil’s Pool at the edge of Victoria Falls and trekking the Salkantay route across the Andes to Machu Picchu. Approaching our...

The Kalahari lion is a sub-species of lion. Kalahari lions look different and behave differently to other lions in Africa as a result of their adaptation to desert conditions. They are bigger, live in smaller groups and have larger territories. Males have black manes. Male and female Kalahari lions In 2020, a female lion gave birth to three cub...

I was asked to write a short article by the PAGB (Photographic Alliance of Great Britain) summarising my lockdown photography and blogs. The article appeared on September 15th 2020 in e-news issue 266 pages 12-13, which you can read here.

Scottish Government travel advice pandemic slogans on the A1 We are now several months into ‘lockdown easing’ *. However, new restrictions are beginning to come into force and who knows what things will be like in another few months. It seems an appropriate time to write what I think will be – though these are uncertain times - my last Lockdown Bl...

Even before lockdown on March 23 rd in the UK, the supermarket shelves were emptying. It was reminiscent of my first supermarket trip after being snowed in for 4 days during the Beast from the East in 2018 – when almost all of the aisles in the local Tesco were empty. This time, toilet rolls, tinned goods, pasta, flour and eggs were impossible to f...