Wow, what a brilliant show. Lots of eager adventurers, all looking for that holiday with a difference. Seems to me that people are looking for more than sea and sand, they are are looking for holidays that will enrich their lifestyle.
Met some amazing people, including an intrepid lover of India and tigers. A couple of years ago she came to one of talks and took my advice, she headed off to Corbet National Park to track tigers on the foothills of the Himalayas. Anyone who has been there knows that you have to work hard to see tigers in that area, but she got lucky.
She was so impressed that I think she will come on every Shadowhawk tracking holiday.
Big names were talking there, inlcuding Kate Humble, Trevor Macdonald and many others.
I had an audience with Ian Maxwell and Wanderlust magazine editor. It is much easier being interviewed, and Dan was a real pro, and knew how to dig deep. I am always asked, what is the most difficult I have ever tracked, this time round I gave the audience bit of a shock.
 We could have done with another hour to answer all those tracking questions.
I came away from the show with re-newed faith in the human race. Yes we all want to go further, and deeper, and closer to animals, but at least I know from the peope I met, responsible travel is on the up.

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I will be intreviewed by Wanderllust Magazine at the Times Destinations Show at Olympia in London this weekend.
Dan (Editor) will be doing the interview and then there is question time from the audience.
I prefer to do a talk, because its carefully scripted, but a live interview without a script could go anywhere.
I have done a couple of radio interviews on the BBC, and you really do have to be on your toes with a good interviewer, and pay attention to what they are asking.
I am hoping I will get a chance to plug my up-coming adventure to visit to Zimbabwe to walk and wild camp in the bush. It the most free
So if there are any of you out there who fancy coming along I look forward to seeing you there.  http://www.destinationsshow.com/london/meet-the-experts-theatre/

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I will be at the Excell Centre in London this weekend, where I am speaking on both Staurday and Sunday.
I hope to see some of you down there. I will be showing some items never before seen, used in my quest for the Yetti.

I have had a coupe of technical hitches posting on my blog and so I apologize it has been a while. So much has happened. The back to back Wildlife Tracking course was amazing. Those on the course worked hard at getting their skills up to a high level. We spent lots of time , with extra sessions on stalking and awareness. 
By Sunday the crew were spotting feeding sign and the faintest of tracks in pine needles.
With that under their belt, they were left to track for a couple of hours. 
They returned to camp just after dark, many of them having used feeding sign and ground spoor to locate a herd of fallow deer. One group tracked down a a red deer stag. 
To say I was proud of their achievements would be an understatement, I was blown away.
I recorded many of them stalking, on the last day they all got very close to some rather black fallow.
Whilst doing her zizo, one of the students had a stag walk right up to her , and  then kicked her day pack.
Well done to everyone, it was a real pleasure .

Autumn skipped a beat, and now I wonder how the rutt is going. This weekend the wildlife tracking course will be specialising in rutting spoor. We will soon see what is going on. The woods cannot hide its secrets from trackers!
I am really excited about what we will find. Its also great , because the course is full, and that means more trackers out there.
I think back to when we first started running tracking courses( years ago), and for sure trackers were a minority group.
 Now, our courses are well attended, and we keep  back to further their tracking experience.
We are being referred clints from bushcraft and survival schools, and indeed other tracking schools are sending us cunstomers. Thanks to them all.

I was out for a run yesterday and near the railway line I came across classic raptor spoor. It was like an aeroplane had been shot out of the sky. There was a very clear debris trail.
I could tell it was a mid air strike, because of the large amount of small feathers, caught in spiders webs which were a couple of meters off the ground.
On the ground there were bigger feathers, including one of the primaries. The primary was in good condition, and not worn out by the friction of flying. There were at least a couple of thousand clues, as to who, what, where and when.
I have collected all the clues, and we will re-create the scene during our tracking courses.
For now, though I am heading off to a TV development meeting in London.
You may think it devoid of wildlife and tracking fun, but the streets of London are always entertaining, especially if

Today I saw an amazing sight. As I went into the woods I was followed in by a buzzard, who swoopes from branch to branch, staying very close to me. I know that buzzards are clever, and it would have known that I was likley to cause a bird to fly out of the undergrowth. There are pheasants in the woods,and the buzzard was counting on the fact that one would shoot out. But that didnt happen. I saw a pheasant move through the undergrowth, and then like like a leopard from a tree the buzzerd dropped to the ground, and started to hop after the pheasant. When the pheasant stopped, the buzzard stopped, and then like lightning the buzzard broke into a run and pounced on the pheasant.
As we get close to our tracking course next week, we will be teaching people how to piece together the jigsaw, and interpret tracks.
Of course I wanted to see what tracks were made during the hunt. I hadnt seen what had happened it would have been very difficult to interpret.
A pheasant being hunted on the ground by a buzzard!