Day Trip Spring 2012 *

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After heavy rains in the Lowveld me and two of the family decide it's tiome to have a look for our self how much it rain in Southrn Kruger. Sunday the 9 th September we enter the park via Malalane Gate, as usual we were first in the que.Not much happen and reality strike when we the one gravelroad after the other waas close due to the rain.The first road that fit into our game plan was Ampie se boorgat pad S118. Normally this road is normally very productive but for some reason very quiet that day ,every thing was clear when we saw sand mining for the tar roads used in summer.(wont asked for their EIA)


no brotherly love between these two Bull Giraffes


These pic's we got because we sat for three hours watching her sleep next to the palms on the s113 concrete drift. She shifted the Kudu Bull caracas and masked the sent by covering the stomach content with sand.


The cubs (6) would most probably have another nights meal. There were 3 females.


Just came to see what mum's doing and if she done a good job.
"Do you think there is enough for all of us for a second helping?"


Spring time is breeding time for some feather folk's.
The Gymnogene - Polyboroides typhus -Kaalwangvalk (Sasol no 169) note that during mating season their facial skin becomes brighter and sometimes red




Nature's paintbrush slip


The burnt area towards Pretoriuskop provided this Ground Hornbill with a nice Boomslang. This fellow needed only 3 meter's and 2 minutes to wipe the Boomslang's brief flame of existence....out ,if one knows the speed of a Boomslang it is fast...very fast but unfortinately (depending on whom your rooting for) the bird's eyesight makes it a formidable hunter.
On the photo you'll see it crushes the snakes head before it's swallowed in about three motions.