From Floods and Surprises in River beds

[Lisbeth]

Yes, the morning light makes the colours so vivid and bright

[Pumbaa]

I just love spending time at that waterhole

Always plenty zebra and wildebeest around

We too and when is productive we even stay longer and skip a long drive

Such lovely colours in all your pics!!

Finally we had that magic light either in the morning or in the evening

Nice to have a big area that is open even in mid-summer...makes a change from the endless mopane!

Very interesting jackal feeding pic, Pumbaa!

There are also in other parts of the park in summer open areas where the view is a bit better but we somehow never had luck in spotting anything there

Such lovely colours in all your pics!!

I couldn't agree more! The light suits the jackals and the zebras particularly well

This light is always the best but also means that normally the day is getting hot

Yes, the morning light makes the colours so vivid and bright

Everything looks completely different when the sky is darker or even it is raining compared to that sunny shots

[Pumbaa]

Normally that area it completely quiet when we so far drove that road but today it was completely different and we even spotted more elephants

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and in the background on the right side you may get an impression how many of them we saw as nearly behind each bush at least one elephant was hiding

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but we also discovered giraffes.

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A nice stop on that road is always at Grootvlei and as if we had not seen any elephants yesterday evening at Mooiplaas and that morning along the S50 all remaining Kruger elephants were hanging around Grootvlei.

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[Pumbaa]

First we decided to park on the dam wall and enjoyed the view with lots of fallen trees

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and the spectacle of the bathing elephants from there but before we could concentrate completely onto the elephants a grey heron had to be captured.

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When we arrived we were the only car at that dam and we enjoyed simply everything

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it was a come and go elephantwise

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[Pumbaa]

lots of breeding herds were around as well as lone bulls and all enjoyed to play submarine.

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Sorry about the number of shots

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but as always it was so difficult to choose my favourites.

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[Pumbaa]

Large herds could be seen

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quenching their thirst

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followed by the obligatory bathing time.

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[Pumbaa]

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Some had to find out who was the boss or simply played

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others preferred the collective splashing

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whilst other were happy to do everything together.

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[Pumbaa]

A lot were testing their skills who is the dominant one

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and many more came running to join the party

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or to take a collective bath.

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[Pumbaa]

Meanwhile we decided to leave the dam wall and drove to the area where you can park the car to get closer to the edge of the dam

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also from here the view was excellent and the elephants had enough space and were not been disturbed by us.

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to be continued…..

[Alf]

So much water in grootvlei