Richprins' Short Business Trips to The Park

[Richprins]

Anyway, a few weeks later off on another Marloth trip!

It was only going to be leachy, then he hurt his leg so asked me for help, then Dwarf wheedled his way in on the trip too!

Just past Malelane it looked like the locals were causing unrest, and we thought about turning around...

But it was just a sugar cane fire!

Dwarf had put a lot of work into his sprinkler system, and it was only spraying out of one place!

(Notice there is a new baby tree too! )

Some evening visitors!

[Richprins]

RP being brave!

Kudu: "Oh the smell! "

Now Dwarf has an obsession with following commercial flights in the sky, ever since he acquired an app for that. It is very stupid, but that night the space station also came over, so great excitement...

I think we saw it?

Anyway, you will never guess what this is!

We made chicken stirfry, despite the howls of rage from leachy who wanted the normal Friday chicken. It took a lot of manual labour slicing vegetables, but was astoundingly good!

leachy: "This food is Palatable." (A great compliment! )

leachy had again planned to mark papers that weekend, but again announced that it was not necessary after all. (It is becoming a bit of a 'cry wolf' story.) Dwarf was going to do a lot of pipelaying, which sounded like work to me, so I borrowed The Dong ll and went in at Croc for the morning! (I had to fill up with diesel at some nefarious spot in Komatipoort where it costs 10c less per litre as my condition. )

leachy remained behind to supervise Dwarf, with disastrous consequences I would find out later...


It was a historic day, the first time Saturday had been added to the SANParks free entry weekend!

[Richprins]

The plan was to go to the dam again for a few hours and then home. (Dwarf had not allowed me to bring any tea, obviously.)



First aminal!

Then I saw some cars parked across the river so went there first (S129)


This was there...

A gentleman came by in a Natal vehicle and I showed them what I was looking at. He laconically said that he didn't think the impala had gotten very far, and I laughed and laughed!


The cars were looking at this giant elephant, Nhlowa, I think aat said!

[Alf]

That fire looks crazy

So close to the kudu

All those cars at the gate

[Richprins]

Ja the canefields get burned every year or so, part of farming!

[Lisbeth]

The sprinkler system does not look very professional

Yes, it's Nhlowa

It's a kudu not a lion

Everything to avoid physical exercise even driving alone all the way to Kruger

[Flutterby]

Ja, for RP to go to Kruger on his own, things must have been bad!!

[Pumbaa]

Love the evening visitors, RP,

and for sure Nhlowa

[Bushcraft]

A nice brave trip into the park alone on the free weekend

You are taking a chance with the kudu

Stir Fry I agree with leachy

[Richprins]

It was only for an hour or two..or so I thought!