before we carried on and noticed not far a waterbuck mom with her gorgeous youngster on the other side of the road.
For sure lots of egyptian goose could be seen whenever there was water left in the Mphongolo and at one spot we even noted also yellow billed stork.
Overall also along our beloved S56 it was an extreme quiet drive and over the day it got more and more stormy and only when we returned home we noticed that this was the day where a cyclone called “Freddie” was about to hit Kruger – At least these were luckily only the extensions of the Cyclone but I was sure that the animals where aware of the weather and that was the reason why it was so quiet that day. At least the waterbucks did not let us down as we found another mom with her youngster in the riverbed
and on the other side of the road we noted a beautiful younger male.
For sure we always do stop at our favourite view point and same had to be captured
and after a closer view we even noticed a sunbathing crocodile at the shore.
Soon we were already at the Babalala picnic spot where we stopped for a short body break and now we drove all the way back to Shingwedzi via the tar road where from time to time a couple of nice views into smaller streams could be captured.
Today even the S53, only a short loop was open, as most of the time we so far spent in the North same was closed and even the Nkulumbeni had a couple of smaller puddles left and in one of them we stopped for an impressive waterbuck male in the front puddle and in the second one a buffalo enjoyed the midday heat in his own
at least a strange couple, however, it was such a nice sighting
as both were extreme close.
As often also the rest of our drive back to camp was quiet but at least we detected a pair of ostriches in the dense vegetation
and at the Shingwedzi causeway today a nicely posing grey heron could be photographed quite close.
to be continued……………..