Escape from the Rat Race. Another live TT from BT.

[Bushcraft]

Thanks for the update BT

Great stuff

[RobertT]

Great shots BT, am sure I saw you fighting with Mopani restaurant staff last year this time also. Last year it was over them not allowing you to have breakfast on the deck. Think they see you coming and quickly devise ways of getting under your skin.

[Dewi]

Great pics of the smaller things in Kruger BT.

[BluTuna]

We are now at Lower sabie and I actually have some bandwidth. Time to get on with this TT!

BT, your close up shots are superb!!

Remarkable! Don't your knees get chafed? Or do you wear pads like a skateboarder?

I use the same knee pads I use when I visit my bank manager

blue tuna !!!!

great shots all around

but the tubes definitely add another fascinating dimension to your photography....

Thanks Leachy, I'm really enjoying taking the close-ups.

finally got to the 'Consession Manager'.

I wonder if they learn something from this, or do they just go on serving the next client in the same way

Eurybrachidae

Never seen a thing like that I love all your small "thingies"

We can only hope they learn from it - I think the waiter went and had a sulk, I didn't see him after I'd ripped a strip off him.

Glad you are enjoying the macro shots!

Great shots BT

REally nice to see some of the littler things aswell

Great installment again BT, love the small stuff
The baby ellie is adorable and love the Tortoise and Lion shots
An albino vervet

We are having a great time, lots of unusual sightings and lots af bugs and stuff

Thanks for the update BT

Great stuff

Hey BC, you don't make up your TTs, do you

Great shots BT, am sure I saw you fighting with Mopani restaurant staff last year this time also. Last year it was over them not allowing you to have breakfast on the deck. Think they see you coming and quickly devise ways of getting under your skin.

Yep, that was me, they came up with the lame excuse that the food gets cold because they have to carry it an extra 15 metres, what a crock!

I think that Mopani is the worst camp I've stayed in recently, the staff there have a definite attitude problem, probably due to the snob status the camp used to have. No all they have is poor service.

Great pics of the smaller things in Kruger BT.

Thanks, Dewi

[Richprins]

Not my favourite camp, Mopane! I go there or through there every year. Did have a very good breakfast there with the family in 2011?

Well spoken out there, BT!

[Bushcraft]

Hey BC, you don't make up your TTs, do you

I’m to doff BT to make this type of stuff up, so only report on the facts from sightings to the family drama.

[BluTuna]

Not my favourite camp, Mopane! I go there or through there every year. Did have a very good breakfast there with the family in 2011?

Well spoken out there, BT!

Not my favourite camp either, I stayed there this time so I could get to Thingamylongname water hole - which was a complete waste of time.

Thanks for the support

Hey BC, you don't make up your TTs, do you

I’m to doff BT to make this type of stuff up, so only report on the facts from sightings to the family drama.

I do have a good laugh reading your TTs -O

[BluTuna]

Day 7. Balule.

This morning we set off towards Satara down the S90 and about 1 km past the S89 junction we ran into these...

This is my very poor attempt at reproducing the classic Nigel Dennis shot..



and some more conventional pictures...




Also along the way, a little Giraffe with a designer double-afro horn-hair-do



a Kudu that couldn't wait to cross the road



a Red-Crested Korhaan



a BBj that got up and called for its partner




a friend of Dick Terrapin who had taken up residence in a roadside puddle



A Slender Mongoose crossed the road in front of us and instead of vanishing into the undergrowth, stopped and took a look at us



We didn't get to drive the notorious S100, opting instead for the shorter distance to a loo stop at N'wanetsi Picnic Spot and from there on the H6 to Satara.

These Butterflies were mud-puddling on some elephant dung! Next time one lands on your hand, just think where it's been!



and this juvenile Bateleur was after a road-kill brunch



The only thing of note on the way back to Balule was this White-Headed Vulture at Gudzani East waterhole.



The afternoon drive took us to the Olifants River bridge where a Giant Kingfisher was looking for supper



Back towards the camp we found a Hyaena den on the H1-4 before the S89 turnoff



On the S89, this may have been the Lioness we saw this morning




On the S90 about 1.5 kms from Balule, the Hyaena den we saw on our last trip in April/May was still there with 5 cubs of various sizes




Back at camp the bug invasion contiued with the night of the Cicadas. These sound like helicopters when they arrive and try to fly into your face



This one won first prize at the Ugly Bug Ball

[Bushcraft]

Wow, more fantastic sightings and pics BT

The early morning pic is brilliant

[Lisbeth]

Fantastic juvenile bateleur