We have recently celebrated our tenth wedding anniversary with a trip back to South Africa – the location of our honeymoon back in 2002. I thought I’d take a trip down memory lane today and relive my first experience of South Africa…
Cheetahs are incredible athletes. They achieve by far the fastest land speed of any living animal—between 112 and 120 km/h (70 and 75 mph) in short bursts covering distances up to 500 m (1,600 ft),. They have the ability to accelerate to over 100 km/h (62 mph)…
In June this year we celebrated our ten year wedding anniversary and decided to head back to the country of our honeymoon – South Africa. Only this time we didn’t seek luxury – we sought solitude, big skies and big cats, so…
This is a re-share of a previus blog post, but it is a memory so precious to me and fits perfectly with the theme of ‘Close Encounter’s… I love nothing more than encountering new wildlife when on holidays, and my ultimate favourite has to…
The ‘Close Encounters’ theme currently running on Taraji Blue’s facebook page (and shared here) is not about displaying our perfect and favourite photos – it’s about giving you glimpse into our travels, the things we have seen and the…
I’ve had a striking realisation today – I have become a twitcher! How did I come to this conclusion? Well.. 1. I adore birds. 2. I take pride in the fact that I have started to recognise and recall the names for both foreign…
This is one of my favourite shots from our recent UK photography trips – it was taken aboard the Yorkshire Belle off the coast of Flamborough, East Yorkshire, UK. We’d set sail on an RSPB puffin cruise hoping to spot…
Watching the build up to the 2012 Olympic Games got me thinking about which new sports we could introduce for our furry friends and which animals could be gold medal winners. Flicking through the Taraji Blue photo galleries I stumbled across…
It’s more than worth a hike along the RSPB reserves at Bempton Cliffs towards the end of June and in July because you’re likely to see puffins resting on the cliffs and returning from the sea. You’ll have to look hard though…
I adored our recent trip to the Kgalagadi Transfrontier National Park in South Africa – I loved the landscape, the solitude and the sense of adventure and survival it offered. I knew it’d be hard work to obtain animal sightings and I was prepared for the sparseness of the environment. I’d set my expectations of locating big…