Africa Wild

It was getting hotter!


Then a very unusual sighting, as often happens unexpectedly!





And a bit further on...more like a scene from Gauteng!




It was the "Working on Fire" plane...they are absolute heroes...more later!

Another tsessebe...



And at Klopperfontein another!

Frew: "Excuse me..."

RP: "Not now!, I'm busy."


The dam was surprisingly full, and...

Frew: "Excuse me..."

RP: "Not now! In the middle of a story!



There was no shortage of animals coming to drink...this is my favourite experience, sitting at a waterhole, having tea, and letting them do the work!


And there was shade! The best waterhole in Kruger, this.




Frew: "Excuse.."

RP: "WHAT?!"

Frew: "Doesn't an unusual sighting always happen unexpectedly?"

RP: ".......................Look! Elephant! "

Nice place, but looks a bit barren

Only one chick with dad

Nice elephant pic

Mom was nearby, Lis...the chicks take a hammering from predators, which is why so many eggs are laid!


Everything was very barren last year there, of selective drought!

I have a pic with about twenty chicks

love too Klopperfontein
full of water.... it seems is not so full

nice to see lot of mammals there.... and birds, big and tiny

Lots of game around but so dry!

Love the ostrich shot, Richprins - Never saw that small chicks in Kruger

Dad ostrich with 1 chick cruising next it is cool

Looks hot

I'm perusing this TT for hints about "Can You See The Aminal That RP Photoshops In Later" hints.....so I now have 5 minutes of my life I can never get back

But you're still one funny dude/dudette

Ja, Ex!...Dudette you say?


Onward! (Actually we went nowhere...)

Oom Jan the elephant was there. He has retired here at the dam he had bought and paid for a few decades ago, and was having a lovely time!



I quite like this pic!



And a few more buffalocusts arrived!

B: "Can we have some water pls?"

OJ: "Certainly, Manne! "




B: "Thanks very much! Mind if some more of us join you? Nice dam this! "

OJ: "Err, ja, why not? Help yourselves, you are always welcome!"






Suddenly, sounds of ululating!

B: "Leave!"

OJ: "Excuse me?"

B: "This is our Dam! ...Jililiii!"


OJ: "But it is my dam, I paid for it...it took a lot of hard work!? "

Twitterpala: "Sooo, like, for sure, absolutely!"

B: "Leave, we don't care. It is our right"

Tw: "Sooo, for sure it is their right. Rhubarb rhubarb.

OJ: "What right?"

Tw: Sooo, what right? Rhubarb."

B: "Our ancestors owned this land. Leave or we will break the dam! "

Tw: "Absolutely! Soo leave the dam! Rustlerustlerhubarbrhubarb."

OJ: "But if you break the dam nobody will have water?

Tw: "Too true! Rhubarbrhubarb!


OJ: "But your and my ancestors built the dam...nobody owned the land then, in fact..."

Tw: "RHUBARB! Baaaa!"

B: "The sun has burned us darker, therefore we demand the dam! Die! Jilili!"

OJ: "Why must I die because I can't burn any darker from the sun? "

B: "Die anyway, leave, come back, pay for a second dam, leave again, and die again, then go back to where you come from! "

Tw: "Errrrr...RHUBARBRHUBARB indeed! Soooo! For sure! Is that right? Maybe? RHUBAAAARB!!! "


OJ: "But that makes no sense, how can I help being less sunburnt, and..."

B: "WE WERE BORN HERE!"

Oj: "But I was also.."

B: "WE DON"T CARE! Jilili! "

Tw: "Yes! So! Wililiee! Baaaaaa! Mehhhh! "



OJ: "Twitterpala...please help me?"

Tw: "Baaaa....MEHHHH!"

OJ: "But..."

B: "Ok, DIE, we break the dam, you rebuild it, we break it, we die, we sunburn, our friends come, you go back to where you come from, you take our friends there, pay them, build a dam there, come back, DIE..."

Tw: "BAAAH! DIE Break Place BUILd BURN sun ancestor MEEEEEH!??? "


OJ: Logic dictates..."

B: "LOGIC IS AN ASIAN CONCEPT ANDDON'TBRINGTHATMINDSETAND...."

Tw: "Ok, let me begin mining, that should end better!! Cheers! "


B: "JILLLILIIIILI!

Tw: "BAAAAAAAAAAHLILLLILLLIIILLLLIII... Let's go out for sushi! "





Meanwhile, Russia had fallen, unfortunately....