Having the Time of my Life revisited (October 2016)

[nan]

wow Suricates playing "Schwingen" - Swiss wrestling - ... superb
Mongoose with a kill
plus again Hanri

no end of surpirses

[Pumbaa]

Fantastic mongoose with kill shots, Mel,

right place, right time

The squirrel pictures are also very special and in the end you saw cheetah again - In fact not a bad day

[Lisbeth]

How I love all those little kritters and the mongoose even offered you a kill Even Hanri once more

[Flutterby]

Fantastic pics of the mongoose , and lovely cheetah sighting!

[PJL]

Great pics of the mongoose
I've never seen one with a kill

[Mel]

Happy that you all also like the little critters Seeing a mongoose with a kill certainly was something special because I had never seen that before either

nan, Pumbaa, Lis, Flutts & PJL

[Richprins]

Astounding quality, Mello!

What a superb action shot again...also the fighting meerkat!

Sometimes a pic just jumps out at you, and it is so nice with an HD screen!

[ExFmem]

Your TT just keeps getting better and better!!

LOVE the shot of the meerkat "play fighting" with the sand flying all around - really captures the feeling of fast action. Nicely done

The mongoose w/ prey is SO special! Not sure I've seen any before, here or elsewhere The closest we came was a squirrel roadkill that a mongoose was eating. Very very unique photos!

And who doesn't love seeing a cheetah or three

Absolutely AWESOME trip - so happy for both of you.

[Mel]

Thanks once again for your encouraging comment, Richprins Highly appreciated!

ExFmem, I'm sure you can relate to the scope of the unique sightings we had, even if the rare stuff evaded us. But with quality like we had, we are more than content with this trip.

[Mel]

Unfortunately, all good things come to an end and therefore our last drive had surfaced all too quickly for our liking. But we were more than happy with everything that the Kgalagadi had offered us over the last 2 weeks. Accordingly, our expectations for our drive out were modest.

Our first sighting came up just north of Rooibrak waterhole with the waterhole itself already being in view... You might remember this, uhm, not so good shot of a snake-eagle

I was busy trying to take photos, working the settings and all the rest of it, when the SO informed me that there was a car parked at Rooibrak waterhole, but since he couldn't see any movement I shouldn't rush with the raptor... Well, the next second it sounded totally different: "Leopard!"

Of course the bird was forgotten and we "raced" down the waterhole. But the leopard was already on her way out. Back then I had already thought that she had not looked really healthy, not knowing that she would be dead only 9 days later. Once again we had found Barolong and luckily we stayed with her until she had been gone up the ridge and into the dunes.





Since we didn't know that Barolong would die soon after our encounter, we were of course totally happy to have had yet another leopards sighting. And even on our last drive out!