Re: Browns in Kruger July 2013
Posted: Thu Aug 01, 2013 8:51 am
10th July Satara to Talamati
This day started very early at around 2:30am as the Cow and Hawkeyes were now completely stuffed and running to the loo every 15 minutes. It’s about then that we worked out it was food poisoning from the toasted chicken mayo as they were the only 2 who had it and I only had 1 bite, so only got it mildly for half a day.
I dug through the stash of cement tablets and dosed them up, but it didn’t make a difference and the running to the loo continued. Fortunately we always carry a large amount of cement tablets, due to my loo issues, but by 6am we were running low on tablets, so I was starting to flap for the rest of the trip.
In the 25 odd years that I have known the Cow I have only seen her this sick once before.
I really started flapping when the penny dropped that we had to move to Talamati today, so should be packing up.
At about 6:30am I had finished loading the car and suggested that I took the 2 small rats on a drive while they slept and come back to pick them up later, but the Cow refused, so at around 6:40am we left camp, but decided to stay fairly close in case of an emergency.
The roaring lions from the previous evening stopped at about 3am, so I assumed that they had moved off, therefore we drove down the H7 towards Nsemani Dam.
As we arrived we spotted a few cars on the left opposite the dam and I just knew what it was as it’s his spot, but he started moving as we slowed, so I found myself begging the Cow “Take a pic, please take a pic” as I couldn’t while still moving forward, but the Cow was out of it.
Eventually we got a “bush leopard”, a bum view and a tail in the bush.
We sat waiting for around 15 minutes in case he decided to come out the bush, but eventually gave up. During this time the Cow found a kingfisher to take pics of.
I asked the loo question and all seemed ok, so we decided to duck up the S40 to Timbavati.
Just past the S40/S12 intersection I spotted something running down the road towards us and shouted “Jackal!!” , but then the confusion started as it was twice the size of any BBJ the we have seen, so I squawked “Side Stripped”, but then again got confused as there was no white tip to the tail. (Other pics are up in the mammal identification forum)
Just before Timbavati we found a large herd of ellies, including a few uptight juniors and then an Egret or Crane model for the Cow.
The Cow and Hawkeyes charged off to the loo again as we arrived at Timbavati and I went to chat to the attendant to thank him for his information the previous day.
To be continued
This day started very early at around 2:30am as the Cow and Hawkeyes were now completely stuffed and running to the loo every 15 minutes. It’s about then that we worked out it was food poisoning from the toasted chicken mayo as they were the only 2 who had it and I only had 1 bite, so only got it mildly for half a day.
I dug through the stash of cement tablets and dosed them up, but it didn’t make a difference and the running to the loo continued. Fortunately we always carry a large amount of cement tablets, due to my loo issues, but by 6am we were running low on tablets, so I was starting to flap for the rest of the trip.
In the 25 odd years that I have known the Cow I have only seen her this sick once before.
I really started flapping when the penny dropped that we had to move to Talamati today, so should be packing up.
At about 6:30am I had finished loading the car and suggested that I took the 2 small rats on a drive while they slept and come back to pick them up later, but the Cow refused, so at around 6:40am we left camp, but decided to stay fairly close in case of an emergency.
The roaring lions from the previous evening stopped at about 3am, so I assumed that they had moved off, therefore we drove down the H7 towards Nsemani Dam.
As we arrived we spotted a few cars on the left opposite the dam and I just knew what it was as it’s his spot, but he started moving as we slowed, so I found myself begging the Cow “Take a pic, please take a pic” as I couldn’t while still moving forward, but the Cow was out of it.
Eventually we got a “bush leopard”, a bum view and a tail in the bush.
We sat waiting for around 15 minutes in case he decided to come out the bush, but eventually gave up. During this time the Cow found a kingfisher to take pics of.
I asked the loo question and all seemed ok, so we decided to duck up the S40 to Timbavati.
Just past the S40/S12 intersection I spotted something running down the road towards us and shouted “Jackal!!” , but then the confusion started as it was twice the size of any BBJ the we have seen, so I squawked “Side Stripped”, but then again got confused as there was no white tip to the tail. (Other pics are up in the mammal identification forum)
Just before Timbavati we found a large herd of ellies, including a few uptight juniors and then an Egret or Crane model for the Cow.
The Cow and Hawkeyes charged off to the loo again as we arrived at Timbavati and I went to chat to the attendant to thank him for his information the previous day.
To be continued