Make Your Safari Memorable (Stu Levine Safaris)

Going on a safari is a big deal and an expensive deal, so it best to get the most out of it that you can. If you go without pre-arranging a guide you have a 50/50 chance of getting someone at each of your stops who will either make your trip a great one or an average one...However, if you go with a private/professional guide, you are much more guaranteed to have an experience of a lifetime (would you rather go on a blind date or on a date with someone who all of your friends are crazy about?).  If you are the latter type of person, then the professional guide who will make your trip fun, educational and worth it…ensuring that when leaving for home you go with more than just a checklist of animal sightings, but with stories and knowledge of the African bush, is Stu Levine. Stu has worked in the bush for fifteen years in some of the very best locations (Londolozi and Singita).  From this, he has incredible wildlife and safari experience and knowledge but just as or maybe even more importantly, he loves the bush.  His knowledge and areas of expertise basically encompass all of southern and eastern Africa.  His understanding and connection to the conservation efforts on the ground will help to enlighten you as to the ups and downs and future of African wildlife.  His tailor made kids safari, Khaki Kids will help engage the littler ones, exposing them to all things great and small and making sure they understand the bigger meaning.  If you have kids, or maybe if you feel like a kid yourself (me!), then Stu is your guy. Please check out his website and start thinking about your next (or first) safari to Africa! Email me or get in touch with Stu (info@stulevinesafaris.com) directly for more info! www.stulevinesafaris.com OR https://www.facebook.com/StuLevineSafaris

Here are some photos of Stu and by Stu...to see more of his pics, visit the gallery on his website or Facebook page. 

Summer Break Is Over

My delay in writing on Bush Bees is due a very relaxing 6 weeks in Virginia, where I couldn’t be bothered to write much.  However, as I am now back in Tanzania I feel that I would like to pay a quick tribute to a chapter of our lives which has come to a close and to get very excited about the new one we are starting. 

Grant and I have sadly left Mwiba, but are staying in a similar field still in Tanzania.  Mwiba has meant a lot of things to me and the 18 months which I spent there were filled with experiences that I would not have had anywhere else…Although a relatively short period of our life and careers, it has added many more tools to our tool box.

If peoples lives can be compared to an art collection, each piece representing an aspect, job, relationship and so on, which in the end can be compiled into a complete collection, each piece symbolizing something individually but all together telling a bigger story, then to me Mwiba is a distinctive piece of my collection.  If this is a fathomable idea, then the Mwiba piece may look simple and may not have taken long to create, but it is a piece which means a lot and in some ways has defined my “style”.  Mwiba will always be an important piece of our lives, but all artists, whether they are completely satisfied or not eventually have to move on to another piece of work.   My next piece may be comprised of more mediums or colors, but will definitely build on the style of what was created in Mwiba.  

Stay tuned for some more exciting Wildlife Conservation, Community Development and Safari Info coming soon!

Below is some of my cousin Bailey Jones’ artwork (Bailey sadly passed away in early June, at the age of 25 and is missed dearly).