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Marty’s photo of the day #3543: When I first saw this bird, in Zimbabwe, I simply called it a “roadrunner.” This morning I spent some time acquiring a more accurate identification, and now I’m reasonably sure that it is a three banded courser.
Marty’s photo of the day #3538: I took this photo from the co-pilot’s seat of a rickety little bush plane. You are looking at Victoria Falls, at the boarder of Zimbabwe and Zambia. It is the widest curtain of water on earth.
Marty’s photo of the day #3526: What is it like to be attacked by a hippo? This excerpt from my newly published sixth book, Hits, Heathens, and Hippos: Stories from an Agent, Activist, and Adventurer, will put you in the canoe with Deb and me. The adventure takes place in Zimbabwe: As the sun dropped […]
Marty’s photo of the day #3509: A greeting party of Nile crocodiles await for Deb and me to canoe around a bend, on a narrow channel of the Zambezi River. (Photographed in Zimbabwe)
Marty’s photo of the day #3508: Few things make your heart race, like walking down a dry riverbed in Zimbabwe and coming across a family of elephants.
Marty’s photo of the day #3492: I took this photo in Zimbabwe. You are looking at a tiny channel of Victoria Falls—the widest curtain of water on Earth—just before the river makes its big drop.
Marty’s photo of the day #3462: I photographed this seven-foot-long African rock python while hiking across Mana Pools National Park in Zimbabwe.
Marty’s photo of the day #3455: A scene from one of the pools in Mana Pools National Park (Zimbabwe). Do you see the crocodile, patiently waiting for its prey to make a mistake? Me neither—but he/she is there.
Marty’s photo of the day #3434: Sunset on the Zambezi River in Zimbabwe. Well, technically, the sun is setting on the Zambia side of the Zambezi. I’m just standing in Zimbabwe. Okay, fine. We’ll call it “Sunset on the Zambezi River in Zambia.” I better stop now, the Z key on my computer isn’t used […]
Marty’s photo of the day #3427: After several minutes of careful stalking, I finally got close enough to photograph this herd of zebras. Photobomb curtesy of an impala. (Photographed in Zimbabwe)
Marty’s photo of the day #3391: I was exploring on my own in Zimbabwe, when I heard a series of cracks. I looked to my right, and there was this beautiful elephant. I had a zoom lens on my camera, so I wasn’t as close as this photo looks, but still, I was much closer […]
Marty’s photo of the day #3361: Look closely and you’ll see lions on both sides of the Cape buffalo. Overall, five lionesses took part in the hunt. Deb and I watched for about forty-five minutes, but the lions never moved in for a kill. Photographed in Zimbabwe.
Marty’s photo of the day #3356: My sixth book, Hits, Heathens, and Hippos: Stories from an Agent, Activist, and Adventurer, is complete and will be published sometime next year. In that book, I share a hilarious story about Montana’s Democratic Governor Brian Schweitzer “coercing” me into paying way, way too much for a signed Hillary […]
Marty’s photo of the day #3283: This is a chacma baboon, photographed in Zimbabwe. When full-grown, males weigh seventy or more pounds, and females weigh half that. Experts are divided as to whether chacmas are a subspecies of the savannah baboon or a species unto themselves. Either way, they’re the world’s largest baboons.
Marty’s photo of the day #3274: I took this leopard photo on the dark side of dusk, so I really had to push my camera. But hey—it’s a leopard! (Photographed in Zimbabwe)
Marty’s photo of the day #3261: I photographed these two elephants while hiking across Mana Pools National Park in Zimbabwe. This was not a fierce battle. In fact, one seems quite excited about the encounter.
