Lars's blog

Everybody travels with a digital camera these days.

Digital photographers face a couple of problems, however. One is that your memory cards get full half way through your holiday no matter how many gigabytes of storage you brought. Second, going digital has just aggravated the old problem of finding an audience for those 10,000 holiday picts that no longer lie around in shoe-boxes but take up space on your computer hard drives.

The wildlife of Maweni is not like Serengeti's. The top predators here are not lions but moderately dangerous eagle owl, monitor lizard, honeybadger (but you should see their teeth!). And then we have the ugly monster: the neigbouring priests' cat. A lazy, chameleon-eating, fish-stealing, bird-terrorising, rat-ignoring, anti-social creature, who does not even like children.

Today a paradise flycatcher chick fell down to the ground from a nest in one of the avocado trees around the front yard. I am not saying the cat caused it, but it happened to be nearby, licking it's mouth. Fortunately, guests and staff rushed to the scene and rescued the little chick in front of the drewling monster's jaws.