Son David on a canoe safari age six

My family have been in Africa since 1688, spending eight generations as wine farmers in the Western Cape before moving up from South Africa to present day Zimbabwe by wagon. It is here that our last five generations have thrived on an outdoor life as hunters, transport riders, farmers, ranchers and now, my life as a wildlife guide. Zimbabwe is where all three of our children were born and raised and are currently educated.

I am sure it is thanks to my family’s long resident history that a deep passion for Africa and its wildlife made me realise at a young age that I wanted to work with wild animals and share these interactions with my fellow man.

Over the past 25 years I have been fortunate to work as a guide in most National Parks within Zimbabwe. Plus the Okavango Delta, the Linyanti and Chobe waterways of Botswana, the Skeleton Coast, Sossusvlei and Etosha National Parks in Namibia. The Luangwa Valley and Zambezi National Parks in Zambia. The Serengeti, Ngorongoro Crater, Selous National Parks and the Mahale Mountain Chimpanzee’s in Tanzania as well as diving the underwater gardens of Zanzibar, this fabled island, reeking of spices and a cultural history of slave traders, Sultans and intrepid explorers. I have shared the summit of Africa’s highest mountain, Kilimanjaro with like-minded friends sourced from two decades of safari holidays together. Safaris have taken me as far a field as Rwanda and Uganda to spend time with Africa’s most endangered mammal, the Mountain Gorilla. On many occasions I have enjoyed the game rich Parks of Kenya, the climax to be a part of Africa’s greatest wildlife spectacle ‘The Wildebeest Migration’ astride a horse for up to ten days at a time.

>Click here for information on Horse Safaris.

My floating office