Africa Wild

lowveldboy wrote: ↑Sun May 27, 2012 12:05 pm
at Klopperfontein - AGAIN. A 1st in KNP for me

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they dissapeared into the bush

flying cheetah wrote: ↑Thu Mar 13, 2014 9:54 pm

As I booked this trip very late I couldn't get accomodation in Punda and so I drove up there from Shingwedzi. The years before I had wonderful sightings at Klopperfontain and so I headed straight t this amazing waterhole. On the way up there it was very quiet and when I arrived at Klopperfontain I was surprised to see that it was full of water (the years before it was more or less dry). For a good while I only saw an Egyptian Goose but I was willing to wait at least one hour..








But finally an Elephant arrived and then the show started. As always it was great to watch him drinking and taking a bath.






Finally he walked away again and a short while later the next one came for a drink. He also took a bath and started to cross the watehole towards me. Because I was so focussed on taking pics I only realized very late that he already was very close to my car. I quickly reversed and tried to get out of the way of the bull. But he showed no sign of aggression and headed towards the signpost where he was rubbing himself and gave me another great opportunity to get nice pics













Altogether I stayed nearly 90 minutes at Klopperfontain and once again it was well worth the visit