In trying to finish a crocodile film in Botswana's Okavango, we rented a few bits of new gear including a 5D on a mini crane.

Needles to say we walked around slack-jawed for days, in sheer wonder at the picture quality of the 5D (f900R as the A-cam...) and the ease at which the crane system could be used.



A real… Continue

Finding big electric eels in Suriname's central jungle isn't easy when you're on the ground. Thrashing through dense jungle in high humdity, lugging expensive and heavy HD camera gear is hard enough.

We knew the eels were there, they were just very difficult to catch. We did get our hands on one at night, and by the looks of things patrolling the river and small streams after dark to catch the eels moving around may be the way to… Continue

The small country of Suriname is famous for being under 90% of undisturbed rain-forest. At the moment National Geographic is on expedition there, looking for big electric eels.

At this time of year the big rivers that traverse the country begin to drop in level as the rains stall for the dry season. River pools around Raleigh Vallen form, and big eels are visible for the only time during the year.



I'm busy shooting the television show… Continue

Flying back from Gorongoza made me realise how remote and relatively untouched a lot of parts of Mozambique are. we flew out over the Kruger, and over solid bush for two hours, before hitting the marshes south west of Beira. Even here there was very little development, just subsistence farming and palm trees.

These sentiments are significant in the light of recent discoveries around Mount Namuli in the north. new species of butterflies, monkeys… Continue

One of Mozambique's great wildlife parks has been opened up again, and is in the process of being rejuvenated. One of the problems in this process was moving problem crocodiles from the park border's Pungwe river, to safer locations where human/croc conflict wouldn't occur.

Resident National Geographic herpetologist, Dr Brady Barr managed to catch some of these animals, and this is one one that fell to a chicken trap. We're hauling it into the… Continue