Africa Wild

Lisbeth wrote: ↑Fri Feb 25, 2022 11:51 am Definitely a place to visit!

Batties, aardwolves and even an aardvark

Bunnies and squirrels

Yes Lis... a place we love to visit because of some of the less regular species

Richprins wrote: ↑Sat Feb 26, 2022 4:16 pm What luck, Peej!

Virtually all the rare small things, plus a brownie!

I love the rhino and rabbit pics too!

That brownie was a real treat RP

Mel wrote: ↑Sun Feb 27, 2022 9:03 am Oh my... Your photos bring back wonderful memories of visits in the Mountain Zebra

Happy for yuo that your parents finally managed to come back over again!

And you all were rewarded for the strenuous time in between. Such great sightings!
Super photos in general and especially of the batties and the aardwolf in the dark.

Thanks Mel

Pumbaa wrote: ↑Thu Mar 03, 2022 11:42 pm WoW PJL,

what to say simply incredible sightings Right place, right time

Your shots are magnificent

Thanks Pumbaa! We were lucky to do the night drive as that really helped with some of the rarer sightings

The rest of our day consisted of testing out some of the 4x4 loops as we had upgraded our car to a 4x4 version since the previous visit. The low range made what were sometimes tricky sections a total breeze this time

Here were some of the sightings along the way...




A southern "rock" agama not really where it was supposed to be






A juvenile martial eagle



One of the summer storms moved in during the afternoon and we found a nice herd of gemsbok in the pouring rain



Then the storm cleared...



And another fabulous rarity

WoW again, PJL,

love the zebra and the martial shots

Amazing "After the storm" shot

The agamas do that kind of naughty thing and we get fooled

How many rhinos are there? ..more or less

I forgot there were fubbaloes there, Peej!

Lovely storm shot, and so nice to see rhino with horns these days!

You really saw an array of species!

And the eagle quite rare there?

Pumbaa wrote: ↑Tue Apr 12, 2022 10:13 pm WoW again, PJL,

love the zebra and the martial shots

Thanks Pumbaa

Lisbeth wrote: ↑Wed Apr 13, 2022 1:26 pm Amazing "After the storm" shot

The agamas do that kind of naughty thing and we get fooled

How many rhinos are there? ..more or less

I'm not actually sure how many unicorns there are these days... I'm guessing more than 10 but less than 50

Richprins wrote: ↑Wed Apr 13, 2022 6:17 pm

I forgot there were fubbaloes there, Peej!

Lovely storm shot, and so nice to see rhino with horns these days!

You really saw an array of species!

And the eagle quite rare there?

Yeah the martial is more of a 'passing through' visitor... but a young one like that might stick around perhaps

Our next day involved most of the family heading out for a morning drive whilst H and myself went cheetah tracking as a bit of a treat for her turning a teenager (which was during early covid lockdown so quite a delayed treat).

Fairly soon after setting out we got the signal of 'Mike' but he was apparently moving so we continued on to try and find 'CJ'. This took us right to a corner of the park that we would never normally see and once we had a weak signal we hopped out the vehicle and continued on foot.



The signal seemed to be very confusing as it would come and go in all sorts of directions... but at one point I thought I saw her sitting in an area opposite where we were walking before she bounded off. I lost track of where she went whilst trying to get the attention of the guide so no-one else actually saw whatever it was that I had seen

Plenty more climbing followed



But CJ was giving us the run around. We walked back to the truck and a bit further along the road picked up a 'very strong' signal. Off we hiked again and after some serious distance and up and down we still couldn't find her.



It was then decided we would rather backtrack and go after 'Mike' so we drove all the way across the park (in a thunderstorm) and after failing to locate him tried again to find CJ and eventually after 8 hours of combined hiking and driving had to give up.

I couldn't quite believe it... I've now done the cheetah tracking twice and failed to find them... I must be bad luck

That evening we had another night drive planned. The sunset was amazing



We saw plenty of springhare, scrub hare, jackals and other general game on the drive but only managed to find one aardwolf this time

H is already a teen I hate to think of how many years have passed since we were first "introduced" to her

The times that I have never seen anything was on a walk in the KTP and a KNP night/evening drive in the KNP

only managed to find one aardwolf this time

well, last time you were spoiled

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Still an adventure, Peej!

Springhares there too!

When does one become a teenager?

Lovely scenic shots!

When does one become a teenager?

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