The Hadzabe tribe in Tanzania are one of the last hunter-gatherer societies left on the planet, yet they also allow visitors to come and view demonstrations/representations of how they live. Baboon is one of their favourite game to hunt, as…
Tanzania Redux – The Tale of the “Wide” Tanzanian
“Canned Rhino in a Bowl” Jambo, is a male rhino in the breeding sanctuary, Mkomazi, Tanzania. You need not feel bad for Jambo, he is safe and happy and pampered, under full time guard, along with three lady rhinos that…
Swimming With the Sharks!
The amazing thing perhaps is that I still have all my important body parts and appendages.. In order of size as I remember seeing them.. Dogfish – I used to work as a commercial diver, and sometimes schools of the…
The Wandering Honeybadger’s Road Trip Playlist (with annotations)
I have spent a lot of time traveling and taking photographs around the world (my photoblog is at https://TheWanderingHoneybadger.com/ ). One of the things that I learned was that an essential aid is a decent travel / road-trip…
The happiest day of my life?
Me, in my much younger days at the helm of Encounter. I sold my sailboat this week, and just handed over the keys today to the new owner. However I am not sure that old adage, “The second happiest day…
Polar Bear Games, Part 8 – Polar Bear Funnies
This is a silly looking, but common pose that polar bears go into. They may even snooze a bit when like this, or push themselves along the snow like a snowplow to clean their tummies. The pose has even been…
Polar Bear Games, Part 7 – Polar Bear Conservation
Polar Bear Conservation Like many species around the world, polar bears are facing loss of habitat due to shrinking sea ice in the Arctic. “Over the 41-year satellite record, the Arctic has lost about 1.9 million square kilometers (734,000 square…
Polar Bear Games, Part 6 – Fear the Bear, Respect the Bear
While they look very cuddly, some people make the argument to fear the polar bear. Indeed, polar bears can be very dangerous. Bears wandering into town are common, and people keep their doors unlocked so that people being cornered or…
Polar Bear Games, Part 5 – More Polar Bear Facts
‘Ooh Rah’ – Here Come The Marines of the Animal Kingdom – Ursus Maritimus The science behind polar bear hairs is quite interesting, in that their fur is transparent. Those long guard hairs are essentially hollow, with a multitude…
Polar Bear Games, Part 4 – Polar Bear Snacks
Like most marine mammals, polar bear milk is supercharged, in that it’s about 30% fat content. The cubs nurse for as little as 18 months, up to as long as 30 months when they eventually leave their mothers. The main…
Polar Bear Games, Part 3 – The Bears at Play
By nature, polar bears are very inquisitive, and I found them delightful and entertaining to observe! When not snoozing, or hunkered down low to the ground to keep warm in the wind, the bears were much more active, the cubs…
Polar Bear Games, Part 2 – Getting to Polar Bear Country
A regularly scheduled flight to Fairbanks was the first leg, but the second half of the trip required the use of a smaller bush plane, which actually made the this leg of the trip more interesting as we flew through…
Polar Bear Games, Part 1 – Truth
The Polar Bear Commute – inbound and outbound to the local whale bone pile. What I learned about polar bears, during and after a recent visit to the…
My Most Recent India Gallery is Now Online
See images from my most recent trip around the North East side of India here, with safaris for tigers and rhinos, and being amoung tens of millions of pilgrims in one crowded location… (Kumb Mela 2019), plus interesting stops along…
My Carbon Offset for this Year
Time to do more than talk the talk, its time to walk the walk. Since I retired in 2014 and started traveling the world (taking photos and sharing them on social media etc. etc.), I reckon my air travel generates…
Tired of Tracking Tigers? Try Rambling for Rhinos in Kaziranga!
Perhaps a silly premise, who could ever possibly get tired of tigers? Ha ha, but it is worthwhile to note that India has more than just tigers in terms of exotic animals. While my winter safaris in India were most…
On The Tiger Trail – The Video
How I spent my winter on Safaris in India, a short video to accompany my three part post on the subject.
On The Tiger Trail – Part 3
This is Part 3 of “On The Tiger Trail” “How I Spent My Winter on Photo-Safaris in Northern India” “Pussycat, Pussycat, Where are You” To paraphrase part of the 1960’s song called What’s New Pussycat, the challenge of actually finding…
On The Tiger Trail – Part 2
This is Part 2 of “On The Tiger Trail – How I Spent My Winter on Photo-Safaris in Northern India” Where to Go India has the largest population of tigers (two thirds of the global total), and the most accessible…
On The Tiger Trail – Part 1
This is Part 1 of “On The Tiger Trail – How I Spent My Winter on Photo-Safaris in Northern India” It wasn’t my first time on a tiger safari, nor my first trip to India, but this time it was…
Stranger in a Strange Land – Witnessing A Pilgrimage for 130 Million People
It’s called “Kumbh Mela“, and it happens over the course of 2 1/2 months in one of the four different holy locations in India that periodically host this festival on a rotational basis. During that time, more than 130 million…
Bangladesh Images are Now Online
See the Bangladesh Image Gallery
Indonesia Photos are Online
The photo gallery from my recent trip to Indonesia (Island of Java, scuba diving Komodo National Park) is now online at http://thewanderinghoneybadger.com/indonesia-image-gallery/.
Angkor Wat Complex Image Gallery is Online
Images from a few days touring around the temples within the Angkor Wat Complex, near Siem Reap, Cambodia. Its a completely amazing place, built from the 8th to 12th centuries, and is in fact the largest religious complex in the…
Benevolent Paparazzi Photographer to the Monkhood?
The Wandering Honeybadger – Benevolent Paparazzi Photographer to the Monkhood? Maybe a new title for my resume? So I recently spent a number of days in Cambodia in Siem Reap in order to tour the Angkor Wat complex of temples. …
Same Same, But Different
Same Same But Different… A phrase you sometimes hear in Thailand, usually when someone is trying to sell you something close to what you asked for, but not exactly the same. After a few years away from the Land of…
Tout of the Ages… Would you buy a used flying carpet from this man?
Tout, Karnak Temple, Luxor, Egypt The backstory about the photo above…. I was wandering around the Temple of Karnak, minding my own business, taking photos and this man approached me: Tout: Sir take my photo Me: No thank…
Red Sea Diving Tips – Don’t Feed the Toucan, Don’t Tickle the Morays, and Don’t Laugh at the Dolphins
Just completed a week long scuba diving trip to the Red Sea, something that has taken me about 40 years to get around to, so I thought I would pass on some Wandering Honeybadger Tips… So my target location to…
Turkey Images are Online
Available at http://thewanderinghoneybadger.com/turkey-image/gallery
Turkish Delights and the Spices of Life
Out for a Saturday morning stroll in Selcuk, Turkey, I scoped out the local farmers market that was being held today for any possible photo ops… while these two presented themselves… … the real reason I was in Selcuk was…