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Aground off the Pilbara coast

Varanus Island, Pilbara West Australia

Long distance cruising onboard a yacht can be a leisurely, personally satisfying lifestyle. Until one runs aground on an unseen sandbar that is.

Join Fiona Harper on a yachting adventure that sees her 15m yacht aground in far northwest Australia.


Phinda Bush Skills Adventure

All eyes on a pair of lions, at Phinda Private Game Reserve (above); Sleeping out under the stars (right); Specialist ranger Mark Karantonis teaches rifle skills (below)

Tricia Welsh finds that a four-day ‘bush skills’ adventure on Phinda Private Game Reserve in South Africa can somewhat spoil it for regular safaris.


Sand Through the Fraser Island Hourglass

Like sand through the hourglass, these are the days of our long-suffering feet. Eschewing the need for a 4WD to explore Fraser Island, Fiona Harper decides to explore by foot instead, walking the sand trails that crisscross the worlds largest sand island.


The Asiatic Lion - saved

India's Sasan Gir National Park


The Mushrooming of Africa

Kaweche Kaunda, son of the first Zambian president, in the history-making rest shelter at Mushroom House (above); President Kaunda's original Mushroom House (right); an elephant strolls past the chalets of the new Mushroom Lodge (below)

The son of Zambia’s first President Kenneth Kaunda reminisces about his days growing up at "The Mushroom House", where Africa's history was shaped


Wild About India

Hunting regally striped felines has long been banned in India but that doesn’t stop enthusiastic camera clutching tourists from actively ‘shooting’ tigers on wildlife safaris.


 

 
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