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About the Furrowed Elephant
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The furrowed elephant is a solitary bull living in Marsabit National Park, a regular guy doing regular stuff, pictured here on the edge of Paradise Lake. You can read about him here. He's the real star behind this site.
My first camps were in the Pacific Northwest of the United States, in Oregon's coastal and Cascade mountain ranges, and the arid highland deserts in the southeast of the state. But there's nothing quite like camping in Kenya. Bears in Montana and coyotes in Arizona are great fun, but elephants, leopards, and hyenas = and so much more here - shape an entirely different experience.
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Beyond the tent, I'm a photographing, oolong-drinking, book-binding, guitar-playing researcher who spends a disproportionate amount of time thinking about security and armed conflict in the Horn and East Africa.
So, have a read of a chapter on armed poaching and check out my photographs from Sierra Leone to Kenya.
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Cheers!
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