Navigation by Springbok

When my niece Jill was visiting South Africa, she noticed that the navigation icon on my Garmin GPS was a boring automobile. How obvious. "Do you want a rhino with a blue horn instead?" she asked. Hell yeah!

are you following me?

Unfortunately the Garmin rhino icon she was referring to is now extinct. Hopefully not a metaphor for my beloved rhinoceros! She found me a deer icon instead to download in its place which I pretend is a springbok or a tsessebe when I'm driving in South Africa.

Save the rhino, Garmin!

PS She also changed my Garmin voice command to a squirrel "voice," but since we are in Africa I think it sounds more like a meerkat. Yum yum!

Happy Holidays from The Explorers Club

The Explorers Club started a new tradition this year. Headquarters in New York asked Explorers Club Members around the globe to share our experiences with our fellow explorers by contributing photographs for a special holiday gallery which they are sharing on The Explorers Club website.

This is an African photo collage I contributed to the gallery. Rhino darting in Marakele National Park, gorilla trekking in Volcanoes National Park, meeting meerkats in the Kalahari, climbing dunes in Namib-Naukluft National Park, getting wet at Victoria Falls in both Zimbabwe and Zambia and diving in Mozambique.

Happy Holidays from all of us at The Explorers Club! Keep exploring!

Meerkats are just so darn cute

Meerkats guarding

Why do meerkats stand up on their tippy-toes? To guard their friends and families against predators while they forage or hang out around their burrows. Mostly raptors who will literally swoop down and poach a pup or a juvenile or an unsuspecting adult right up and carry them away.

Uhoh  ... they see something ..

Meerkats foraging

 on the move ...
















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paydirt! ... a scorpion