After a great stay at Giraffe Manor it was time to start our quest to see Africa’s Big Five in real life, admittedly after clarifying an initial issue where I told the kids the hippo was one of them, and they insisted it wasn’t and quickly invoked the ultimate authority – Google – to prove […]
At Solio Lodge we’d ticked lion, rhino and water buffalo (still in my mind the pretender of the group) off the list and knew we would have no trouble finding elephants on the Mara. (Despite seeing the baby elephants in Nairobi a few days prior we needed to see them in the wild before they […]
After a fantastic morning with the baby elephants, it was time to move to the place that driven the entire itinerary, Giraffe Manor. Stuart and Sascha had watched a documentary that featured Giraffe Manor years and years ago, and it’s been on their bucket list ever since. As soon as we found out this year’s […]
We’ve been waiting with huge anticipation for our African adventure, and have a great week of activities across Kenya planned courtesy of Abercrombie & Kent. Sascha had voted the first day’s itinerary as most likely to be her trip highlight, so its fair to say expectations were high when we woke up in Nairobi this morning […]
The announcement of the inaugural eight teams to compete in the AFL National Women’s League in 2017 has been made, and its fantastic to see the Brisbane Lions awarded the Queensland licence. It’s clear that Queensland women love their AFL, we have the highest rate of female AFL participation in the country – 33% of the […]