This is not a day to day TR, all stories are based on sightings during our last trip from november 26th 2011 till december 14th 2011.
Story 20 – A Farewell Party (last story for now)-
Hi to all,
Based on trips in 2010 and 2011 I was able to present 69 stories to you and shared a great number of pictures of many great and special sightings….
Well…. It is time to stop... about 5 weeks before we enter Kruger again for about 4 weeks.
Elly and I appreciated all the nice comments and many thanks for the great number of visits to our stories.
This last story is about my favorites and – or special ones to create a nice Goodbye to all of you.
Just a note: I really could not find too much time to visit and comment on all your reports, sorry for that !
Next to my work I spent and am spending a lot of time to keep my Tusker website up-to-date and providing many many Tusker ID requests.
Just launched a new section at my Tusker site for the Legendary Tuskers of Kruger , including DUKE.
Specially for Duke I renewed his pages (3) to get a photographic overview of his life covering 10 to 11 years.
Link to Duke's pages:
http://www.tuskersofafrica.com/tuskers/duke_001.htm
link to Legendary Tuskers of Kruger
http://www.tuskersofafrica.com/tskmain/tsklgnd.htm
Next to the famous Magnificent 7 I think it was time to give a special place to Tuskers like Duke, Hlanganini, Mandleve and some others
Back to this story......... , As promised I will take you through some highlights.
A very special encounter with a male Sable along the S36
He was really relaxed and posing for a while
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Along the S102 we met a lion pride, very unexpected just near the road. Allways great to see lovely cubs
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Somewhere in the south we have had one of our best sighting for years.
Suddenly … two Black Rhino’s appeared … coming very close and really it was breathtaking and I was so exited I had difficulty to handle my camera… after some minutes I was able to keep the camera steady …
Looking at the pictures again now… impressed again
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Note: It is so very sad that so many rhino’s have been killed by poaching for NO valid reason at all. People in some countries still think the hair/nail combination is a medicine …. So sad….so sad…. Soooooo sad…..Reading the updates about this subject…makes all of us getting tears in the eyes …
Probably some of you know I have “something” with Tuskers….
I was very pleased to meet NGODZI , one of the named tuskers in kruger. Met him just north of Letaba
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Some pictures of New Life in Kruger…. November the time the new borns , innocent entering the beautiful and dangereous Kruger
Showing this one since not all of us do see Tsessebe with a baby …only up north
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Driving from Skukuza towards Lower Sabie suddenly out of nothing this lion pride came out of the bush and just that moment almost no other cars… Lovely this beautiful cub.
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Lucky with nice cheetah sightings along the S28.
Just a few impressions of these sightings , they are Elly’s favorites and ok… I do like them too…
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and.. in total there were 4 of them…posing here 3 on a row
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Some pictures of the African Painted Dogs (I prefer this name).
Talking about a special sighting … these Dogs are special…
I found them near a location I know they have a den… crossing the area from there to S36, Satara and other places…
During this sighting I counted 19 of them … no one else around .. another highlight of the trip
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Sable is our favorite Antelope … Think I don’t have to explain why….
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I selected these pictures because I met these along the S50 , a mother with two cubs.
Looked like they had never seen vehicles – people before… so curious … also one of my personal highlights. You understand if you read the story, about a proud and caring mother…
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Leopards are beautiful… getting the opportunity to photograph one at short distance , about 10 meters away is not a daily thing…at least…not for us…
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As Tusker whisperer… (some do think I am…., don’t know why…)
I met NWAMBU , one of the named tuskers , so always a highlight
This one included the location where I found him…so nice
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Ok….. this was it….
If you liked the stories and think it is nice to see new ones after our next trip (nov/dec 2012) please let me know… I like to write a set of new stories to share our sightings with you.
THANKS FOR YOUR VISITS AND COMMENTS
Byeeeeeeeee for now and see you again………
Aat & Elly
