Our trip to Kruger after a whole year had finally arrived. We had booked 3 nights at Satara and 3 nights at Lower Sabie and we were hoping that Satara would hold something good for us as we haven't had much luck in that area in the past few years. The Brat and I had decided that instead of taking lots of duplicate shots this trip, he would take more video while I manned the camera, but he still got a few nice pics.
As usual, we had planned to leave in the very early hours of the morning to get to the gate before it opened. SO hates that we drive through the night and always tries to dissuade us, but we stuck to our plans and fetched my dad at 12.30am and were on the road 10 minutes later. The drive was fine until we were on the Schoemanskloof road. As we approached a blind rise I could see lights approaching from the other direction and slowed down, as I always do, but as we crested the rise there were two vehicles in front of me instead of one...some idiot was overtaking on a blind hill and I had no other choice but to swerve off the road.
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Anyway, we were back in Kruger after a whole year and eager for the gates to open.
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We saw a few impalas and some vultures before reaching Nyamundwa dam which was without its resident Fish Eagle this year, but the hippos were still there. The rest of the road held some wildebeest, zebra, kudu and giraffe. We took the S65 and soon came across a large breeding herd of ellies.
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They crossed the road quickly and we moved forward to see them running through the river bed. We knew they were heading for the N'waswitshaka waterhole so headed there to wait for them.
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Before the herd appeared two males arrived to drink.
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The herd soon arrived and the males left to make space for them.
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At the rocks on the H1-1 we found our first and only klipspringer of the trip.
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You can never have too many LBR pics.
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We did see one rhino during our morning drive, but sadly saw very few over the rest of the trip.
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