A Fantarantulatastic Trip To Kruger - April 2017

[nan]

for once... poor little Boon
right this Baobab is superb

is this big Elephant behave, like the Addo ones ?

love the Kingfisher

[Pumbaa]

What awesome sightings you had, PJL,

especially love the steenbokkies, the baboons and all your landscape & bird shots not to forget the bathing ellies

[PJL]

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

Very much a local jackal - he curled up almost on top of a wildebeest one evening

The Baobab is beautiful

And the "Stop pulling my leg" babboon is funny

The baobab was looking very healthy Lis - great to see it so green

[PJL]

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

Ja, children need more discipline in this country!

Yep we eventually had tea

for once... poor little Boon
right this Baobab is superb

is this big Elephant behave, like the Addo ones ?

love the Kingfisher

No nan, the elephants aren't as educated up in Kruger
We had to reverse for a while with this one making a fuss at us

What awesome sightings you had, PJL,

especially love the steenbokkies, the baboons and all your landscape & bird shots not to forget the bathing ellies

Thank you Pumbaa

[PJL]

April 3rd

We woke up nice and early again (mainly due to camping neighbours who for some reason thought getting up and being noisy about 2 hours before gate opening was sensible ). Outside we could hardly see anything... partly it was still quite dark, but it was also very foggy

This morning we planned to venture down the H7 to Orpen and back. I had been chatting to another camper about routes and he had seen more game in general to the west of Satara rather than the east. Plus I was secretly hoping we might stumble into the Orpen wild dog pack

As we started along the H7 the sun started to burn its way through the fog



But then it disappeared again for most of the drive along to Orpen which gave today's pics a bit of a misty glaze

The hippos in Nsemani weren't minding the weather at all, and some impala seemed quite happy to see us





The same could not be said for this bateleur which looked quite wet and tired



Our previous day would have been a 'Big 5 Day' had we found buffalo but they weren't anywhere to be seen. So it was quite amusing to stumble across this massive herd grazing in the mist. On the opposite side of the road we managed to scare a kori bustard into view which was nice to see so close





RP was chewing on some breakfast, whilst a bit of patient waiting allowed us a good view of some dwarf mongoose







The dogs were nowhere to be seen, but quite a cool sight was Mr & Mrs Golden Orb Spider
I wouldn't want to be Mr Spider



Our only other sightings before reaching Orpen were general game. This zebra was looking quite regal in the grass whilst we hadn't seen too many warthogs in Kruger so we snapped a quick pic of a family of them

[nan]

cute little Darf Mongooses
like the Buff in the frog
and... and...

[Lisbeth]

In contrast to Nan I like the Golden Orb spiders and the little mongooses are really cute

[Bushcraft]

You should have greased the noisy neighbours My personal pet hate is those who don’t consider others.

A misty morning, but a nice mix of pics and general game

[nan]

In contrast to Nan I like the Golden Orb spiders and the little mongooses are really cute

[Richprins]

Hey, camping comes with the territory...if you want to hear night sounds you must be prepared to listen to neighbours too!

I miss it a bit...must maybe pull into a luxury privatised tent!

lovely shots, Peej...gorgeous baboon!

love the buffalo in the mist!

Dwarf mongoose are difficult to photograph, but as you say, just sit still and they will come out again.

Story of male lives, that spider!