After You

An Ixworth rooster with white plumage in a khaki cotton safari jacket, standing beside a green safari vehicle on a high bank of the Mara River, a steel flask and a tin cup on its wing, a line of wildebeest wading across the brown river below in dusty golden morning light

The Far Bank

The herd has spent all morning at the edge of the river, each animal waiting for another to go first. He watches from the far bank with deep sympathy and a flask of tea.

20 July 2026