Kruger is calling......*

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18 June - Day 4:

Today I decided to take a route from LS, Skuks, Phabeni gate, Pretorius kop, Skuks and LS O:V and today I started to feel the way one should feel when visiting Kruger O/\ O/\ O:V I even looked forwrd to having my first braai of the trip O:V

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Here at Lake Panic I had to hear that I missed a Leopard by about 10 mins :shock:
Lake panic's water level is the lowest that I have ever seen it :-(

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A dam near Phabeni

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So still no Leopard but lots of Lions -O-

TBC... 0()


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Day 4 will continue now.....I think :-0














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More from day 4 later.........maybe O**


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Day 4 the end.....so will the Leopard show it self -O-

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And then it happend about 16:00 on my way back to LS......no 1

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I was so happy but then about 4 kms on I saw to creatures crossing the road that looked like Lions....no 2 and 3 O/\ O:V

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After that High some more birds and things :-0

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So after a incredible day I went to the LS shop, bought some meat and charcole and had a wonderful braai O/\ O:V

Next my trip home......


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19 June:

Going home today so I decided to go from LS to Croc bridge via S28 and then S25 to Malelane gate

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Then at last Cheetahs O/\

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TBC.....


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Last part of my trip to Kruger..... ;-) I will post in 2 episodes :-)

First episode, some general game

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End of episode 1...next some Carnivores :-)


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Last episode of Kruger is calling......

About 10 kms from Malelane gate I got this great sighting O/\ O:V

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And then to top it of a BBJ O:V

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And that ladies and gentleman was my latest visit to Kruger O:V

Maybe not the best trip ever, but the sightings was great and I at least enjoyed the last 2 days O:V O/\ X#X X#X

Our next trip to the North will commence in T- 19 days ;-) and counting

Hope it was a great trip for everyone who joined me :ty: \O


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Hi there 0/* 0/*

Alf: Very dry...river on Mahoni loop has flowing water \O , Klopper fontein has some water \O , Levubu river has lots of water, but the feld is very dry with no or very little grass.

RP: We went well till Louis Trichard, then I took the wrong road and had to go through Malumulele and some other scary places with roads full of potholes and speed limits of 60 and 80 km/h, but we made it in one piece but not so lucky with the glasses(2 broke) and some of the stuff in the cuberts fell out 0*\ O** . The main thing is we made it safe and now we are enjoying the awesome KNP \O ^Q^ X#X X#X

The young ones are resting now :O^ :O^ , we will di the Mahoni loop later.

Ps. Nan: we saw Frank, he says hallo, but he was very busy chasing the monkeys that was making a nuisance of them selves =O: =O:

Oh yes we had a great breakfast at Pafuri although I forgot half of the stuff in the caravan :o0ps: :o0ps:


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Photos nearly sorted, but I will start this TR so long ;-)

Just a note, Bookworm took about half the photos \O (she kidnapped my camera most of the time O** )

Day 1: 1 August:

We left Boksburg at 2:53 and had a good drive to Punda Maria, we arrived at 10:10 and booked in at the gate O/\ O/\ (ok it was a good drive to Louis Trichard and then I took the wrong road and we eventually got to Punda Maria 0*\ )

Some photos from the gate to the camp:

Reception at the gate, they even searched my car and caravan \O

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Firtst animal

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Some piggies far away, but I had a BIG new lense and this was the result :-)

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Then at camp we saw these animals at the hide O:V

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And last this Impala with deadly weapons :shock:

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We then went to camp reception and booked in, we(or rather I) had the great Idea to walk to reception......BIIIIIIGGGG mistake O** , have you guys/galls seen that mountain you have to climb to get there :shock: , I survived and we set up camp and had a little rest before we left later to drive Mahoni loop 0() -O-


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Day 1 continues:

While setting up camp my eye caught something very disturbing on my caravan door.......my licence for the caravan expired on 31 March and I didn't put the new disc in :shock: O-/ .....after some X#X X#X I decided this little thing won't spoil our trip and we went to the hide and took some more pics \O

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We then decide to do the Mahoni loop...

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Next a surprise and a lifer ;-) 0()


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We drove on the Mahoni loop and then we saw vultures in the trees and something not smelling very well, as we came closer we saw a car parked next to the road and we started looking and then.......LION O/\ O/\

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After about 20 mins we decided to get moving as it was getting late...

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Then our first lifer....a Crested Guineafowl O/\ O:V

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Last for the day this Big Ellie, I must just warn ya all that there will be lots of ellie pics in this TR :-)

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Next Day 2....going to Croocks Corner 0()


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