My African Adventure

I am an avid Star Trek fan, not quite a Trekie, but I watched most of the series and almost all of the movies.  In the Star Trek Generation series, at the the opening credit at beginning of each episode, Captain Jean-Luc Picard always said and I think that’s the most famous Star Trek quote of all time:

Space, the final frontier. These are the voyages of the Starship Enterprise. Its continuing mission: to explore strange new worlds, to seek out new life and new civilizations, to boldly go where no one has gone before!

And that’s how I choose my holiday destinations, and “adventure in strange new ‘worlds’….” well not exactly new worlds and certainly not “where no one has gone before” like Captain Jean-Luc Picard, but it’s adventurous and exotic to me or at least it’s an action holiday for my husband and I.   Like most photography enthusiasts I like the adventure to seek out new scenery for my photography portfolio, either new landscapes or the real tops of, wildlife photography – the picture above with cheetahs looking for their prey, shows it all, a daily adventure on the play ground of the popular “big five” .

Yet it’s not only about the big five, there are others that are part of the package:

These young impala testing their testosterone…also part of the show

Young Jackals waiting anxiously for “mummy and daddy” to come home…

Getting up close and … with elephants

 

But then it seems that we are getting too close and encroaching their territory, as this elephant started trumpeting and charging our car…

King or rather queen of the jungle – just another close encounter with lions... aren’t they cute and cuddly?

I guess Africa tops it all, exotic wildlife, gorgeous landscape and most of all the adventure was so different compared to visiting urban places for a street photography experience.

Daily scenery, the landscape photographs never fail.