Overwhelmed with Kgalagadi

[Flutterby]

Thanks for reposting Pedro...I know it's a mission!

The meerkats sure give good entertainment value!

[pedro maia]

Thank you all for the comments, and ot wasn´t that hard to repost, it was only one "episode".

[pedro maia]

After the wonderful meerkat sightings there wasn´t much to be seen until Twee Rivieren, with the exception of these pale chanting goshawks.

Then we had a decision to make, we were quite tired but we arrived at TR before 17:00 and although next morning we would still make a (half) morning drive in the park chances are that we won´t return there any time soon so I thought it was worth it to drive a little bit in the Nossob road, so we had a snack and a beer at Twee Rivieren and went back to the road.

It was a good decision because not far from the gate there were some cars and that usually means cats, and it was the case, in the other bank there were three lions, one male, which seemed to be still young since his mane wasn´t fully developed, and two females, one of them with a collar, maybe they were the same three lions that broke inside the camp the other night but of course that may be just me speculating.

They weren´t as close as we would like but it was still a very nice sighting and with the binoculars we could see them pretty well.

The male was clearly in the mood for love so he tried his chance with one of the ladies

But she wasn´t at the same mood

Cropped picture

[pedro maia]

And she didn´t let him do what he wanted to do

Another cropped picture

And she moved away

And there they were, the girls to one side and the boy to the other and we had to go away without knowing if there was another round as we couldn´t miss the gate closure.

That night it was braai night

With the lamb chops and the borewoers we bought at Sitzas and a nice syrah from the western cape

And before going to bed my daughter and I made some experiences taking pictures of the stars, these are the best we could do, we missed a good tripod, we forgot to change to the small lens which would be lighter and there´s much we need to learn as well.

Anyway I must say I never saw such an amazing sky, we were lucky to be in KTP during the new moon so there were only stars to be seen and it was just incredible, the milky way unbelievably lighted.

[Lisbeth]

Nice that you saw lions

If I did not know it was stars I'd say Modern art

[Mel]

The lion lady against the lion laddy

What unit did you stay in at Twee? Never saw a braai like that anywhere in the camps so far.

[Lisbeth]

Pedro did not stay at TR, but outside the park.

[Flutterby]

Always nice to see lions. Good attempt at the stars...I tried once and it came out black!

[pedro maia]

Pedro did not stay at TR, but outside the park.

Indeed, at the Kgalagadi lodge, 5km from the gate.

[pedro maia]

Always nice to see lions. Good attempt at the stars...I tried once and it came out black!

It´s not easy but the result could be worst, at least it looks like modern art, as Lisbeth said, although I´m not sure if that´s a good thing .