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And I thought I had overcome my fear of spiders I'm not coming back to Kruger ever again now knowing there are that huge spiders
(Please, nobody mention that big spiders can be found all over SA... my little brain doesn't know that yet.)

Fantastic capture of the queleas

And a fish eagle that I had sooo longed to see (the one at Mountain Zebra was at least at Domkrag Dam again though).

Have you never seen the spiders of the Kalahari?

sorry... can't comment...

A long haul back from Lower Sabie

Nic barbet pic. There’s a few resident ones that seem to hang out at Lower Sabie, but we have seen only a few up Satara way.

You drove past Satara still Your rats must be very good as there’s no way mine would handle that long in a car without causing chaos.

A walk around Satara I hope you all had reinforced shoes as the thorns were wild there this year.

A baboon spider Never seen one of those in Satara I would have been shrieking along with your kids

Great pics of the queleas...some of those flocks were massive!

Ah, the tarantula at last! Great pic...although I would also have been shrieking!

Mel wrote:And I thought I had overcome my fear of spiders I'm not coming back to Kruger ever again now knowing there are that huge spiders
(Please, nobody mention that big spiders can be found all over SA... my little brain doesn't know that yet.)

Fantastic capture of the queleas

And a fish eagle that I had sooo longed to see (the one at Mountain Zebra was at least at Domkrag Dam again though).

That's correct Mel, all spiders in SA are concentrated into Kruger alone

Bushcraft wrote:A long haul back from Lower Sabie

Nic barbet pic. There’s a few resident ones that seem to hang out at Lower Sabie, but we have seen only a few up Satara way.

You drove past Satara still Your rats must be very good as there’s no way mine would handle that long in a car without causing chaos.

A walk around Satara I hope you all had reinforced shoes as the thorns were wild there this year.

A baboon spider Never seen one of those in Satara I would have been shrieking along with your kids

Yes it was a long haul. We paid for it the next day with kids chaos

Flutterby wrote:Great pics of the queleas...some of those flocks were massive!

Ah, the tarantula at last! Great pic...although I would also have been shrieking!

Thanks Flutterby

April 6th

By this stage of the trip, I was starting to lose track of days (that's a good sign). It's just a good thing that my camera holds images by date otherwise lots of days would merge into one

The kids wanted to go and see the hyena den down the H1-3, so I figured we could blend that into a circular trip taking in the S125, S36 and back along the H7. Nice idea, but most of that loop was totally dead quiet. I also hadn't taken into account how much driving we had been doing, so the kids were reaching their limit and started causing some serious chaos in the car... so on the western side it turned into a long drive to get back to camp rather than much of a game drive

Anyway, the start of the day was great. Parent hyenas weren't to be found, but some of the youngsters were scattered on or near the road







At one point a giraffe appeared and neither the hyena or giraffe seemed bothered about each other



The high grass at the side of the road made it easy for the youngsters to disappear, but it also made for some interesting photos





The young hyenas seemed to be very keen for their parents to arrive home, moving up and down the road to look out for them







As more cars arrived, the young hyenas retreated, so we continued on our route. There wasn't too much activity down at Kumana except for the baboon troop, a cute family of banded mongoose as well as an impressive waterbuck







Our only other sighting of note was way further along on our way back along the H7 - a juvenile bateleur had found something to snack on at the side of the road

Great collection of hyenas and I love the banded mongoose

By this stage of the trip, I was starting to lose track of days (that's a good sign). It's just a good thing that my camera holds images by date otherwise lots of days would merge into one

Ja! Thank goodness for that...same problem for many of us, I think..and you're still young!

What lovely light on the waterbuck horns!

Unique giraffe/hyena combo!

Nice day so far, Peej!

Ah, to be young again! (Talking about the boon)

cute little ones
Boon well...so cute at this age
love too Banded Mongoose