Category: Trip reviews

When it comes to UK mammals, few species are more challenging and yet at the same time rewarding than otters.  Not only is it a question of knowing where to go and look for them but the fieldcraft involved is right up there too: time of year (there’s more family…

Pretty much all my adult life I’ve lived with cats at home and as I write this one of them has even settled on my lap in his attempt to assist and interrupt my endeavours with his purring! As a result I have learned to recognise an array of their…

During the pandemic I missed going to many locations, but one place that I was desperate to get back to was Svalbard. I have been running trips to this beautiful Island Archipelago in the high Arctic for many years. These islands are the realm of the King of the Arctic,…

I photographed my first fox in 1989 and it was a Red Fox that was visiting an elderly couple’s garden who had been feeding the local foxes for years. They would put out the food at the same time every night and within half an hour a little vixen would…

One of my last trips out of the UK before Covid-19 restrictions came into force was back in February to Norway. I went to the beautiful Dovrefjell National Park looking for Musk Ox during the winter conditions that these mountain ranges are famous for. I have been to these beautiful…

I have been deeply fascinated by Raptors since I was a Kid and one of my lifetime ambitions as a photographer was to photograph a Golden Eagle. It was impossible in those early days unless you could get a licence to photograph them at the nest, which the average tog…

As we’re slowly coming out of lock down, there are now some opportunities to move around the UK safely and sensibly. So with this in mind, and recognising that overseas trips are likely to be faced with some challenges in the weeks to come, we’ve taken the opportunity to put…

Hi everyone, first and foremost, we hope and trust that you and your families are keeping safe and well in these unprecedented and challenging times for us all. It’s been a busy couple of weeks and we have now communicated with everyone booked on trips with us up until the…

If you’ve enjoyed the Rugby World Cup over the last few weeks you may have acquired an appreciation for the marvellous hospitality of the Japanese people.  It’s conclusion has coincided with the very real onset of the long, mostly grey and for the moment  at least, very wet winter months here…

One of the questions I like to ask people when they travel with us to pretty much anywhere in Africa is “which is your favourite of the big cats we might see and photograph”? Although there are essentially three to consider when answering this, the answer that almost always comes…