16 October 2015
On a day where
temperatures didn’t rise above 17 degrees we had some superb sightings of Zebra
and Giraffe!!
The Zebra on
the notorious S100 route were in particular special as some mules had begun to
fight and specifically " jump and back kick " like only the Zebra can
do!!!!
The photos
myself and Gary got of these striped wonders were truly up there!!!
Giraffe
spotted close to Nsemani were so special as there were 5 drinking together...
After 15
minutes of " pure poetry in motion " drinking the entire herd
approached us as if to officially welcome us to the " central "
region of Kruger and try and remove our " obsessive thought pattern of the
Majestic North" !!!!!
We came across
Ostrich that was extremely close to the road and seemed excessively nervous!!!
The Nwanedzi
tar however produced the days best with the new addition to the "Predator
list " being added... The spotted Hyena who was suckling her 2-3 week old
pups very close to the road!!!!
Vocals, visual,
volume of traffic were all 10/10 and thoroughly enjoyed.
Guests then
departed on a late night safari.
17 October 2015
On the night
drive Wendy and Gary added Civet Cat and large spotted Genet to their ever
growing list of Mammals and also spotted something on their " needed"
list which was the Flap Necked
Chameleon!!!
Setting out a
little later today we came across so much on our way to Pretoriouskop that the
entire dinner tonight was focused around selecting "no 1 " sighting!!
To summaries
we saw the big 5 twice and 10/10 sightings to boot!!!
However for us
was the sighting of 3 Giraffe lying down together in a row preparing for a
sleep in increasingly bad light!
Garys comment
that the W.Rhino and calf close next to us came a near second!!!
18 October 2015
As much as the
previous 7 days were legendary in many ways the epic day of the North to South
was mutually agreed by all concerned to be today!!!
There was no
real standout sighting but the early morning male Leopard near camp walking
literally 1 m from us took first prize!!!!
To turn around
and see Wendy in tears and awe at this Leopard was quite something and Gary
basically remarked that it was his best sighting of any species in all four
trips so far!!!
The late
afternoon interaction between Baboons and Wild dogs on the sun lit Sabie river
was special!!!
So was the
rare sighting of a Trumpeter Hornbill at Pretoriouskop camp being extremely
vocal!!!
The lion pride
lazing in the open was awesome as were many others!!!
Some that
quickly come to mind were the sightings 5/5 of Banded and Slender Mongoose and
then a glimpse but a positive id of a Cape Clawless Otter!!!
The mind
boggles at today but tomorrow something may crop up that tops them " all
" !!!
That is what
makes Kruger so unbelievably amazing!!!
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