The Faraway Blog

A special thanks to Paul Bride for his image of Jason Hairston in the Southern Alps. Jason strove again and again but is gone too soon. May his family find a measure of peace in the memory of happy days. … [Read more...] about Special thanks

Beautiful as they are even the spiral horns have an aristocrat. It’s one thing to see nyala in a book but quite another in real life. They are simply so improbable and exotic – white mane and stripes, spots, orange legs and ivory tipped, lyre shaped horns. When they appear at a waterhole it’s like watching a supermodel stepping onto a bus. The common species lives over much of southern Africa, both in natural range and transplanted into new territories in Namibia and the Limpopo, but their … [Read more...] about Nyala – the shifty one