African Safari Guide
Set the camera on a tripod and click delay photo …
1962 Luangwa Valley Game Reserve.
My visit, with the African Safari Guide, to this area was inspired by the book ‘Wildlife in an African Territory’ by F. Frazer-Darling (Oxford University Press 1960).
Having satisfied the manager I was self contained, with a suitably equipped four wheel drive vehicle I was allowed free access to all the area.
Here I had engaged one of the Park Rangers as a ‘guide’ to find some camera worthy animals.
Then, a pipe smoker, I tipped him with a tin of top class English tobacco – much appreciated!
The Victoria Falls
What is the local name for the falls?
Known to Africans as ‘The Smoke that Thunders’.
I saw the clouds from the spray and heard the ‘thunder’ 25 miles away!
In 1962, on leave from the Tanganyika Police Services, the writer made a grand tour of Central, Southern Africa, in a battered old Land Rover, a relic of the ill fated Tanganyikan Groundnuts Scheme of the early 1950’s.
These photos in this set were a ‘black and white’ interlude in a ‘colour slide’ era of photography, in the then Northern Rhodesia.
HWJ. Lucas May 2011.
See Joe’s African safari articles: [1] A bad short cut down the Muse Escarpment!
[8] Tanganyikan safari: Fire in the night
[9] The Donkey’s Revenge – Egyptian safari
[10] African safari – The valley of the Shadow of Death
[11] Souvenirs from East Africa: figures 1 to 3
Born in 1930.
In the 1950’s Joe opted for travel and adventure overseas to Kenya, Tanganyika and Uganda…