Tornadoes – Storm Chasing in Saskatchewan
Last week, I had two opportunities to go storm chasing in Saskatchewan, Canada (my home stomping ground). This is something I have been interested in doing for a while, but not something I would do on my own as that just seems ridiculous.
Through the world of Facebook, I saw that a friend of a friend (who I also knew, but now very well) was a storm chaser. I randomly bumped into him and asked if I could tag along sometime. He said he would let me know when conditions were right and a few weeks later I was riding shotgun (well, mostly in the back seat) with Nick Schenher and photographer Chris Graham.
Living on the Edge of Africa
There I was: getting stuck in a mud pit with a three-metre long crocodile, being slapped in the face by an elephant’s trunk, tracking and hand feeding an adult cheetah, being charged by a hormonal rhinoceros, pursued by a lioness with a windowless truck as my only protection and, of course, the biggest challenge of […]