A Fantarantulatastic Trip To Kruger - April 2017

[All-Nature]

Lovely birdies and Ellies are just super!

[PJL]

Lovely to see Nsemani so full of water

Absolutely! I couldn't believe how full all the dams were - great to see

I think that first steenbok is a male?

Lots of water in the dams and water points, how was the Timbavati River?

Good move taking the dirt roads a bit, but ja, the Timbavati drive is deceptively long!

Yep male steenboks... that first one a unicorn
Timbavati had some decent water in stretches

Lovely birdies and Ellies are just super!

Thanks All-Nature

[PJL]

April 2nd Continued

After our later-than-planned completion of the morning drive we were a bit late in organising something for the afternoon, so we eventually decided on a trip down to Kumana and back. On our previous visit the area around Kumana had been a bit of leopard hot spot so I was secretly hoping for some luck down that way However I think we used up all our luck in the morning

It was a pleasant drive though, with plenty of general game around including giraffe, an elephant (who had us reversing for quite a while ), hoards of quelea taking in turns to drink/bath whilst a woodland kingfisher looked on rather confused









Kumana was quiet save a few buck in the distance so we popped round to the baobab tree and found a bushbuck meandering around as well





The drive back was extremely quiet and we only got cameras out late on for some baboon antics and a jackal near camp





The end of a great day was topped off by a nice sunset

[Flutterby]

The long grass makes the giraffe look short!

The quelea flocks were quite a sight this year!

The road to the baobab tree was closed when we were there...wonder why?

[Lisbeth]

How do you expect me to catch up at this speed

[PJL]

The long grass makes the giraffe look short!

The quelea flocks were quite a sight this year!

The road to the baobab tree was closed when we were there...wonder why?

Lots of 'tall' animal looked short this time
I wonder what was going on near the baobab tree... maybe something to do with heavy rain? I saw there was a big storm just after we left the park and others were asking why the Sweni road was closed

[PJL]

How do you expect me to catch up at this speed

At least I don't go as fast as the hamster

[Bushcraft]

That giraffe looks constipated

The jackal is a local at Satara. If you stay in Stanley guest house he pops up every evening.

Brilliant pics once again

[Lisbeth]

The Baobab is beautiful

And the "Stop pulling my leg" babbuino is funny

[Richprins]

Nice stuff, Peej! Did you eventually get some tea?

Ja, children need more discipline in this country!