BornWild - Arctic to Antarctic, Endangered species series,
Wildlife Photo Adventures - Indonesia 2017
My assignment in August was to document Orang-utans in the wilds of Borneo, Tanjung Puting National Park, and starting with a few that the rangers called up by imitating their very loud verbalisation calls, to feeding stations in the forest, I was informed by my guides that due to a plentiful natural food supply we may see a few of these rescue and rehabilitated, but lucky to film a mum and baby, juveniles, and mature males, in afternoon thundering downpours.
After many days of searching and on my last morning heading downstream towards the town of Kumai, on the Seykonyer River, my guide Aris screems out and indicates a mature male Orang-utan hidden and nervous, feeding on the palms at the rivers edge, success at last.
BornWild - Arctic to Antarctic, Endangered species series,
Wildlife Photo Adventures
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A clip from BornWild - Free Spirit
“BornWild - Jaguars of the Pantanal”
Filmed Brazil South America 2013
Jaguar Kill
Day three was to prove an amazing experience. We set off as usual at day break upstream along the Cuiaba River and branched off to the Three Brothers River and found a magnificent large male Jaguar hunting along the rivers edge around 7.30am and tracked its progress to 11.30am, these cats are opportunistic, stalking ambush predator, top of the food chain, witnessing five unsuccessful attempts, it decided to lay up in the shade just in the bush, out of view. It is quite tough to follow these cats as they disappear into the forest like ghosts, there one minute, gone the next!
So we decided to check out a reported Jaguar sighting down stream and were rewarded with a female Jaguar hunting along the rivers edge, and within 5minutes she went into stalk mode and crept along on her belly towards the waters edge and with a lightening jump, pounced down with a large splash onto a large caiman grabbing it by the back of the head and for the next few minutes struggled with it in the water and finally dragged the caiman up onto the bank, where the caiman in a life and death struggle grabbed hold of a tree and held on for dear life. While this was playing out I caught this amazing action on film from my small Camera boat, and when the Jaguar delivered the fatal bite piercing the armored skull, it licked the caimans head and with a huge effort pulled the caiman still holding the tree and both disappeared into the bush for a well earned meal for the Jaguar.
Wild Australia BornWild November 2015
The Great White Shark Expedition
Neptune Islands
South Australia
I have come face to face with one of the world top apex predators the Great White Shark, (Carcharodon carcharias) or White Pointer as they are commonly known, this ranks up there for one of the most amazing fear factors. Although I'm in the safety of a cage filming, when this 4meter plus shark circles a few times, locks on to me, and then makes his move hitting the corner of the cage with huge impact only inches from me with huge force, another diver in the cage pulls me back out of danger, then the shark disappears into the gloom of the vast ocean as quickly as he appeared.
BornWild Image Of The Week , 29 March 2017
Antarctica 2011
I thought I would share one of my extreme places visited
Just getting there was a challenge, the Drake Passage threw up big storm, whats its like to cross the "Worlds Roughest Seas"
between South America's Cape Horn to Antarctica