Africa Wild

And then an unexpected guest turned up: a black heron and did his whole repertoire:


And after the show he thanked the public, only me, and disappeared....no bis

Back on the highway towards Letaba I had a strange encounter with a mad elephant. I thought it was an anxious mother, but looking at the pic it seems more like a bull in musth.



I had hardly slowed down when the ellie started the whole scene with a flying tusk, headshaking and flapping ears and trumpeting matched by the rest of the small herd. The leader started to move and in a jiffy, they were all in the middle of the road.........I was not there anymore though


At Nhlanganini Dam

......nothing, but a bit further on there is a bridge and there I found a black stork


A Scarlet dragonfly

And a Yellow-billed hornbill


A brown snake-eagle very, very, very far way. In fact only when I loaded the pic on the laptop I could see what it was. Maybe I should have left it where it was

Wow what a show by the black heron. Never seen something like that myself

At Letaba I went right away to do what I had come for: To see the Elephant Hall.

Those tusks are so very impressive and the photos do not do them justice as there is nothing to compare them with. The mere size of some of them almost knock you over

A couple of views from the restaurant deck


Lunch in company with a stupid red-winged starling that would not turn around


and at the end the well-known resident bushbucks


The trip home must have been completely void of life, because I do not even have a pic of a flower

I’m not a fan of the revamped museum. The previous displays showed how enormous those elephants were.

Aaah i just love that view from the restaurant

The restaurant at Letaba is a nice place, both for the view and for the food too.....mostly

Wow, also never seen that heron!

Lucky, Lis!

I think the ellie display looks grand, but haven't been there in person since the rebuild.

Love the laughing bushbuck!

Love the view from the restaurant .Still cannot believe that the flood waters ever got that high .

Definitely looks like a young bull from the pic maybe one day he will be included with the others in the museum my dogs would love to chase a scarlet dragonfly around the pool

WoW Lisbeth,

to that black heron sighting and shots - We do still need to find our very first one during one of our forthcoming trips

Cute bushbuck at Letaba and love your Sable dam and Letaba impressions - Those goose can make indeed a deafening noise

A visit at the Elephant hall in Letaba is always worth

Cute monkeys.

Great pics of the Black heron....I've never seen one!

Those Magnificent 7 sure were impressive!