Imfolozi Browns July 2017

[Bushcraft]

Jeez, Hamster! What a trip!

Nice to see the family relaxed and well.

Ja, you see, you are also relaxing more!

Ja, I relax at Imfolozi as there's less to see Hectic at work, so have to finish quickly

[Bushcraft]

Wow what a great start to the trip like the night visitors

Hmm thinking a drive up to Imfolozi to test the bus sounding good

Thanks Roger Yes, Imfolozi is close enough for a short tester trip

[Bushcraft]

Great start with splendid sightings and pixs

Been years since I was last there Just so far from CT

What is the accommodation prices like? ...Very pricey ... do they have pensioners rates?

Thanks AN Yes, not really worth a trip from CT but worth a stop if in the area They are very pricey in holiday season but around knp's pricing out of school holidays. Not sure on the pensioner rates.

[Bushcraft]

lovely

[Bushcraft]

The dogs decided to park off and other people arrived at the viewpoint so it started to get rather crowded for me, therefore we headed back to camp for bacon and eggs stopping for a few more locals on the way back, but we didn’t take pics.

Back in camp the Cow and I realised that we had forgotten the bacon and sausages so after a blame game argument we ended up with mushrooms, tomatoes and eggs only, however it seemed to take forever to cook it in the small little frying pan that came with the unit which resulted in breakfast turning into more of a lunch, but now appetites had developed even more, so an hour later I ended up starting a fire to cook all a toasted sarmie also.

The plan after lunch was to explore a little towards Nyalazi gate on the tar.

The Imfolozi riverbed just below camp produced a few GHB’s cruising around and some lion trying to warm up in the sun

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The rest of the drive towards the gate and back to camp produced plenty more of the usual gang.

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[Bushcraft]

We still had time to drive further when arriving back at Mpila so we continued on through camp towards number 17 again in case the dogs were still around and mobile, but soon stopped again for a crested eagle thing that got the Cow excited and then waterbuck popped up and 17 produced no dogs, but rather a laugh as a giraffe and rhino had a stop/start charging match over a puddle of water while a buffalo looked on.

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The drive back to camp certainly wasn’t peaceful as the road was blocked by a rather stroppy ellie so the Cow was greasing me about the “safe distance” and then confused herself.

“Reverse!!”

“We have to get past to get to camp!!”

“Reverse, wait………..$*@#*#** Go forward!!”

“What!”

“Go!! More are coming from behind us!”

The Cow was rapidly losing the plot and the Imfolozi ellies seem to be chowing too much Durban poison as they seem way more temperamental than the Kruger ellies so I had to take a semi bush detour to get past.

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Our last stop before camp was for a few cars next to the road and supposedly a lion was sleeping in a bush next to the road, but after 10 minutes all 3 cars were still in place so we couldn’t get a gap to see clearly, therefore decided to just snap a pic of what we could see and continued on to camp.

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[Alf]

Interesting hamster holiday

[Flutterby]

Nice sighting of the Eagle and lots of other nice things to see.

[Lisbeth]

Lovely crested eagle and nice lions and ellies and also all the rest

Must be nice to be able to go for just a weekend *sigh*

[Richprins]

Very nice, BC! Sort of like a mini-Kruger!

Didn't know there were ground hornbill there?

Maybe the park is getting full of ellies?