It is quintessential savannah Africa, and we have spent so many happy times there. We were married in the Mara in and still have a base there. I can think of nothing better than spending the afternoon or early morning in our Land Rover watching the Marsh Pride or a leopard, sitting quietly with a cup of tea and just absorbing the essence of this corner of Eden and its wild inhabitants.
What essentials do you travel with? Your best piece of safari advice? Always try to spend three nights at any destination.
What advice would you give to young people wishing to follow in your footsteps? The most important thing is that you believe in yourself and persevere. Determination is a vital ingredient. You need to set off and embrace the uncertainties as you carve out your own pathway.
You can have a great relationship, get married and raise children, and also earn a living as a photographer. Just stay diversified, with your fingers in lots of pies, like we have. What is it that you love about the Mara? What makes it so special? The open savannah landscape makes it an ideal place for watching big cats, particularly for finding lions and cheetahs. There are also some wonderful areas with acacia thickets and woodland, the perfect hiding place for the more secretive leopards.
Elephants and fire have made significant changes to the environment over the past forty years — it is much more open today. If you had to use three words to sum up the Masai Mara, what would they be? Why did you fall in love particularly with big cats? There is an aura to big cats that has always made them our favourite.
They are so beautiful, yet being predators there is always that tension, the sense that they can transform in an instant from a peaceful sleeping cat to a sublime hunter. Angie has always been fascinated by the social interaction of lions: For me it has always been the leopard.
They are so enigmatic and mysterious, so clever at concealing themselves. They give nothing away and you have to spend years in their company to truly understand their true nature. It took me six years to write my first book on leopard — that is how difficult it was in the s to find, let alone photograph, a wild leopard.
What is the most valuable lesson you have learned from watching the cats? We are inspired by spending so much time with nature. It helps to remind us of the gift of life, that death is a natural part of life; something none of us can avoid.
Watching an old lion in the twilight of its years, still determined to cling to life, despite its age and the inevitable injuries; this makes us value and respect our own lives. You have spent a lot of time among the big cats. Have you ever felt in danger? Reviewed May 9, Write a Review Reviews Show reviews that mention. All reviews " beautiful animals ". Review tags are currently only available for English language reviews. Read reviews in English Go back. Reviewed May 7, Be sure to take the tour. Ask wildcainwa about Cat Tales Zoological Park. Spokane, Washington, United States.
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