So we had no other choice than to drive via the tar road back to the H3 and on our drive along the S110 again a lot different raptors came across such as a Wahlberg,
a brown snake eagle,
okay no raptor but black eyed bulbuls
and now already on the H3 a couple of amur falcons were also willing to pose.
As always lots of yellow billed hornbills were flying around and now we stopped on the bridge across the Matjulu whilst once again it drizzled a bit heavier. The river was in fact quite full as same it often carrying only few water
and here we realized for the first time that the road closures of the sand roads might last longer as often a stream had to be crossed on those roads and if same look already like that in fact impossible. Somehow suddenly the rain stopped and we looked down into the riverbed where we noticed a couple of great white egrets who were busy in catching something for breakfast and one of them soon caught a fish
They had chosen a shallow place
and soon were successful in catching another fish
whilst a large crocodile tried to get a bit warmer.
We stayed on the bridge quite a while and enjoyed the views into the riverbed, the river, the egrets
and onto the crocodile
but after a while carried on and luckily it looked as if the rain might have stopped for the day as it got brighter and also this bateleur now started to dry its feathers.
Meanwhile we already noticed that also all the other sand roads which we do normally drive when staying in Berg end Dal were also closed so we had no other choice than to stay on the tar road which we imagined in fact differently but had to accept it. Meanwhile it got a bit quiet but we stopped for another brown snake eagle
who simply had to be captured as same posed like a star.
to be continued……….
trip. It's just water after all 
