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(Reis) Trot, Trot, Trot, Trot. The Spotted Hyena walks closer to the car. “Emma, take a picture,” I say with excitement. Click. She takes it. I’m relieved. It was dark so she had to take another one, but change her ISO and F Number, whatever that is. The hyena, doesn’t cooperate. Speeding along, it inches […]

(Emma) I see the SHELDRICK sign as we pull into a dust road. My heart starts to beat faster and I start to hyperventilate. I have been waiting for this day the second I heard about it.  We are going to meet the baby orphan elephants we adopted a few months ago. The time slows […]

We have already accumulated so much video and so many pictures that I spend hours culling and editing, organizing and backing up.  I spent the last few days in Zambia and Kenya cutting videos that try to capture the highlights of the last few African countries we visited. Those videos join the same recap video […]

(Dana) Our visit to the Lower Zambezi River Valley in Zambia was timed perfectly: the availability of apple-ring acacia seed pods. Affectionately called “elephant biscuits,” these finger-sized pods are a favorite snack of our 3-5 ton friends. They gather up the pods from the ground or strip them off of any branch they can reach. […]

(Dana) On a game drive, as much as we are happy with the small sights, a new behavior for a previously seen animal or a stunning landscape, nothing beats witnessing something rare or extraordinary. Observing lions mating from 10 feet away with no humans within a mile is definitely in this category. Our guide Jacob […]

(Alex) Today we had an adrenaline filled day. White water rafting on the Zambezi River with class 3, 4 and 5 rapids in the morning, then cliff jumping and zip lining in the afternoon! The rafting was great; high, tough rapids followed by nice, calm, warm, flat surfaces of water for swimming – without many […]

(Emma) Today was the first day of school for all of the schools in Dover. Right now as I type this the middle school bus would be at my house, picking me up for my first day at the middle school. But I am not there; I am in Zimbabwe instead. Even though I am […]

(Dana) Two elephants trying to shake palm nuts out of the tree next to the boys’ tent at our last camp. Hippos feeding, snorting and laughing right outside the girls’ cabin last night. Lioness prints on the sandy path between our tent and breakfast this morning. Our guide doing a 360-degree sweep of each area […]