Africa Wild

Looks so peaceful!!

Mel wrote: ↑Thu Dec 05, 2019 5:55 pm WOW, that must have been a nice feeling to have the camp site virtually for yourselves.
Hope you didn't feel lonely there

Great to see Roy and Nomad again. For you that is. Me, they never graced me with their presence in Addo,
so I might have to trek to Mountain Zebra for another chance. And looking at them, I might not want to
wait for too much longer. They do look a bit older by now and certainly had their share of fights, judging
by their scars.

Never seen little blesboks. Very cute they are

We couldn't quite believe our luck with how few visitors there were during our stay. I think many schools hadn't finished and so we got in just before the Christmas rush!
Roy and Nomad are definitely getting older now - Roy is almost 13 and Nomad is probably a bit older then him.

Alf wrote: ↑Thu Dec 05, 2019 6:54 pm New waterhole sounds amazing

Oh that empty camp area is awesome

Sunset wow

Yeah the new waterhole is a good addition. The sign doesn't look very official so we nearly missed it, but as you come out of camp turn right and then just over the bridge there's a dirt track on the right to this new spot

Richprins wrote: ↑Thu Dec 05, 2019 7:31 pm Very good, Peej!

I love waterholes...

Obviously no oxpeckers there?

Campsite looks neat and in order as always!

You would like monkeyland I'm sure RP
There are oxpeckers - red billed variety and I think they were introduced the area a number of years ago. We didn't see any on this buffalo herd though.

Lisbeth wrote: ↑Thu Dec 05, 2019 7:50 pm Meerkats

Always nice to see them Lis

Flutterby wrote: ↑Fri Dec 06, 2019 8:34 am Looks so peaceful!!

Very peaceful Flutts
It's one of the main drawcards for me

We started our first full day in the park checking out both Monkeyland and Doornhoek Dam, but it was all quiet except for some kudu



We decided to head up onto Rooiplaat and down the Link Road to see whether there was any sign of Roy and Nomad's movements. Rooiplaat had the usual array of blesbok and springbok but nothing close to the road. Just onto the Link Road there's a small watering hole which this morning had attracted a herd of black wildebeest



A little further down the link road a car was stopped so we decided to ask them what they had seen. It had been an animal running along that they didn't immediately recognise and wondered if it was an aardvark, but their description was a bit amiss... some kind of snout, black in colour with a white stripe

Whatever it was had dropped into a small kloof and wasn't visible any more. We were just about to head when it suddenly popped out for the briefest of moments on the far side and it was clearly a honey badger

It dropped back down again in a split second so these pics really don't show it well at all, but you can see the white of its head and back as it was trundling downhill again. Honey badgers are found in the Karoo, but sightings of them are extremely rare so we counted ourselves very fortunate





Further down the link road some movement caught my eye and I slowed down to try and work out what it had been. H then spotted the animal in question - a bat-eared fox



These are one of D's favourite animals so he was totally stoked to see it. Whilst sitting there we realised there were others in the area as well



We started to continue on our way keeping an eye out for any more when I noticed yet another fox hiding just off the road



Whilst not being totally scared, it wasn't too keen on us being there and got up to move to a safer distance





The way it was behaving had me thinking that there must be a den in the area, and we noticed a suspect hole close by. We would definitely be back to check on it in the days to come

Wow! Great sighting and pics of the foxes. What time was it? Difficult to see them during the day

The black wildebeests are less black than the blue ones

Can't see any honey badger in those two pictures

Lovely pics, Peej.
One gets the impression you guys are serious gamespotters...not very pro on my Dimwits trips for example...

Those foxies are very photogenic, and well done on a rare sighting as always!

Alpheus open your eyes man!

I'm with Alf. Those pix would have served well for "Can you see the animal"

But nevertheless - well spotted! And BEFs on top of it --> And they were actually pretty close too,
even if you used a bazooka lens and zoomed in. I only know them as a blurred spot somewhere far off in the
vastness of Mountain Zebra

Lovely pics of the BEF!

Alf wrote: ↑Fri Dec 06, 2019 4:47 pm Can't see any honey badger in those two pictures

Maybe this helps Alf



Heading downhill... face at the bottom right