For many, our relationship with these vulnerable giants begins as a child. Whether it’s a fleeting glimpse of an elephant at a zoo, or an introduction to the species though nature documentaries, it’s hard not to be mesmerised…
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…
My husband and I were lucky enough that our birthdays coordinated with the launch of the last ever night shuttle launch from Kennedy Space Center, Florida, USA. Being space and science geeks we could think of no better way to celebrate and, after a tense ticket purchase process, we eagerly packed…
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)…
This truly was a close encounter of the titanic kind… Whilst resting in Greenland’s Scoresbysund one evening, our ship was struck by an iceberg. Our captain used powerful search lights to explore the surrounding fjord in an attempt to find a navigable path out…
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 am going to kick start a new theme / thread here on the Taraji Blue facebook page, it’s called ‘CLOSE ENCOUNTERS’ and it’s going to go behind the scenes of our travels to show the people we have met,…
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…