My first safari – with Amango Tours
On anti poaching survey, Rubondo Island
My daughter, Ashleigh, 2013
Camel spider in the desert
On duty, asset protection, Tanzania 2004
Some of the original Corner Bar pals, now in Entebbe; Don McMillan, Bill and Santa Goodman, me (with dark glasses) Hellen. (taken at Entebbe Sailing Club)
Only in Africa!
Dead tank just outside Juba, in South Sudan
A Dragunov sniper rife, on carry bag
Elephant entering river at Ishasha River Camp, Uganda
Elephant crossing river; she notices me on this side
Elephant surges towards me; we both start to panic!
Elephant gets closer, I decide to move.
We are now both calm!
On Jackson’s Summit, Mount Elgon
Taking food for the lepers, Juba, South Sudan
On a camel trek with clients through the Avenue of Volcanoes, Tanzania
On the summit of Mount Hanang, Tanzania, 1995
Hellen and Ashleigh in kayak in Jinja, Uganda 2012
My wife, Hellen Ikang, modelling at the Serengeti Gold exhibition, New Africa Hotel, Dar es Salaam, 2002.
Hellen “All me own teef!”
On a walking safari in the Selous Game Reserve, Tanzania, circa 2001
2002 to 2004 in Tunduru district in the eastern borders of the Selous a scourge of a man-eating lion in which forty people were killed. The outbreak ended with the death of a three-year-old male lion the villagers had come to call Osama.
So enamoured were they with these events, great banners (of the lion eating a man and then the death of the lion by gunfire) were painted and out on display in the village.
Me at Entebbe Sailing Club, 2013
Me at the river at El Kuran, Ethipoia 2013
Me outside the “office”. El Kuran, Ethiopia, 2014
On safari with the photogenic clients, Uganda, 1997
Me at the “viewpoint”, Turkana, northern Kenya, 2012
Sir Richard Francis Burton
Rhinoceros beetle, Turkana
Sam, Entebbe sailing club, 2013
Sam, and lion, Sam’s first safari
Sam caught this fish; Paul Goldring lifted it out of the Nile river; Murchison Falls, Uganda, 2012
Sam at Murchison Falls
Sam at Murchison Falls
Sam on the Nile, Jinja, Uganda
Scorpion in Turkana, northern Kenya (in perspective against matchstick).
Me and my team, asset protection, Dar es Salaam, 2004
At the start of a gorilla trek in Zaire (now DRC) with the photogenic clients, late 2006 or early 1997
Me, posing with a Dragunov sniper rifle, El Kuran, Ethiopia, January 2014.
With Turkana womenfol and children, at Kode Kode manyatta, Turkana, northern Kenya, 2012
Termite chimney, Turkana, northern Kenya
Trapped scorpion
Tree-climbing lion, on the fig tree, Ishasha, Uganda
Trekking in forests, lower Rwenzoris, 2013
Trekking in lower levels of the Rwenzoris, Uganda
Young Turkana girl