Sixty, and stuck in the sand. KTP summer 2018

[Richprins]

What a privilege, Gavin!

Note how one of them has dragged the carcass into the shade, as you say...a HEAVY load!

[RogerFraser]

Wow just catching up on some episodes .

Love the sunset scenery shots .

The Brownies and the Spotted Hyenas are always interesting to watch and them hiding their kill in the waterhole is very interesting .

The campsite layouts looks very peaceful

And then the Cheetah and Lions all in one day amazing pics and that they were so close you could not see it .

[Lisbeth]

Forty kilometres are a lot in the KTP, so I hope that the lion sighting was to your liking

Pension already at sixty in SA?

[Mel]

Lots of sightings of the bigger stuff

But that cheetah sightings is of course my favourite. It's Catrin and her two cubs.
They were born in 2017 and Catrin is from Caster's second last litter

[Alf]

Wow so close to the lions

Great shots taken there

If that was in the south of Kruger then the whole parking area would be full of cars

[GavinW]

29 December: The day the Kgalagadi lost the plot (well not really, let’s not be greedy!!)


Debbie woke me with a cup of coffee and a happy birthday kiss for the old man.

Once out of the tent, we saw hyena tracks all around our camp site. We had probably been investigated pretty well by the resident pack, and our braai grid was certainly looking a lot cleaner that what it had been the previous evening

My first sunrise as a 60 year old, I think was pretty awesome



We decided to take advantage of smooth road south and after checking out the Polentswa waterhole, we set off south.
As seems to be a given this year, a brown hyena was again at Kousant.

I’m not sure if we kept seeing the same animals, but hey, we have seen so few brown hyenas in the past, we were certainly not complaining.





Carrying on down south, frustratingly, there were lion tracks in the road heading north back to where we had come from, but they obviously had eluded us

We got to Bedinkt and were rewarded by a sighting of 2 hyenas at the waterhole as well as meeting up with friends from Cape Town, Richard and Dianna.
They confirmed that the road up from Nossob was also very quiet.





We decided to head back to Polentswa, as we had a bit of housekeeping and packing to attend to.
The trip back was pleasant, on the newly graded road, and we spotted a couple of agamas on the way back:
This chap





As well as this more colourful guy





My birthday was spent chilling back at camp, pottering. Pottering is one of the things I enjoy most, and especially in our camp site in the Kgalagadi
So I was a happy chappie.

That evening, for sundowners at the waterhole, we were joined by these wildebeest



All under a vulture Tree



Just before we had to head back to camp, another brownie arrived for a drink



Our visit to Polentswa this year, certainly had been dominated by hyena sightings


A bit later that evening, supper was served

[Peter Betts]

Lovely Gav and Debbs ..Great sightings

[Mel]

Hmz... why did you think that the KTP lost its plot?

[GavinW]

Hmz... why did you think that the KTP lost its plot?

Just me being greedy. A relatively quiet day on my birthday

[Lisbeth]

Did you expect KTP to present you with some nice gifts? At your age it must be something not too exciting and that's what you got