Thanks Pookypooky wrote:Brilliant BluTuna
Acrobatic tawny
The landscape colours
and dirt bath ostrich
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The pics of the Oryx galloping across the due are some of my favourites for this trip too.Mel wrote:I agree - the colours are absolutely amazing! And that oryx on the red dune
against the beautiful blue sky is particularly nice.
Interesting tawny sighting - would have loved to watch that as well.
But the last full day?
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nan wrote:BluTuna last day... full or not... last day
superb and interesting serie of the Tawny picking out some branches for its nest
and superb Kestrel too
Ah ! these dunes
nice episode once more
Thanks again Nan, all good things come to an end unfortunately
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Day 12, Friday June 14, Twee Rivieren. Continued.....
Back at camp we were visited by the tourons. One of them pretended to be an attorney who was "representing" his clients; he told me I would have to come back to the nearest town to attend a court case, "But we can make this go away", which I assume meant that he wanted me to pay the fine for them.
I told them to go away and send me a summons but he persisted until I picked up my phone and called the KTP emergency number. They left in a hurry. The police arrived shortly after with a couple of parks board people; they told me that the matter was already settled and they had been fined R1000.00 and told to leave the park.
I thought that the fine was OK but being booted out of the park as well was a bit harsh - well, it would have been harsh if they hadn't tried to extort money from me!
I spoke to the section ranger on the phone later and he told me that they were told to leave the park (by the park manager) because they wanted to cross the border at Mata Mata and they hadn't spent the required 2 nights in the park. They were told they had to leave the park at Twee Rivieren.
Before I set off for my afternoon drive, Yellow Mongooses
And on the afternoon drive I found a Lanner Falcon
A Rock Kestrel
A pair of Giant Eagle Owls
another LBJ
and here's that beautiful tree in the sunset again.
Back at camp we were visited by the tourons. One of them pretended to be an attorney who was "representing" his clients; he told me I would have to come back to the nearest town to attend a court case, "But we can make this go away", which I assume meant that he wanted me to pay the fine for them.
I told them to go away and send me a summons but he persisted until I picked up my phone and called the KTP emergency number. They left in a hurry. The police arrived shortly after with a couple of parks board people; they told me that the matter was already settled and they had been fined R1000.00 and told to leave the park.
I thought that the fine was OK but being booted out of the park as well was a bit harsh - well, it would have been harsh if they hadn't tried to extort money from me!
I spoke to the section ranger on the phone later and he told me that they were told to leave the park (by the park manager) because they wanted to cross the border at Mata Mata and they hadn't spent the required 2 nights in the park. They were told they had to leave the park at Twee Rivieren.
Before I set off for my afternoon drive, Yellow Mongooses
And on the afternoon drive I found a Lanner Falcon
A Rock Kestrel
A pair of Giant Eagle Owls
another LBJ
and here's that beautiful tree in the sunset again.
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They should have been fined for that tooI thought that the fine was OK but being booted out of the park as well was a bit harsh - well, it would have been harsh if they hadn't tried to extort money from me!
They had chosen the wrong victim though 
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Thanks, fellow HB fan!mposthumus wrote:Excellent narration
As for the Tourons
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Lovely! 
And your other LBJ is a Marico Flycatcher
And your other LBJ is a Marico Flycatcher
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Being made to go a long way out of their way was good enough!Lisbeth wrote:They should have been fined for that tooI thought that the fine was OK but being booted out of the park as well was a bit harsh - well, it would have been harsh if they hadn't tried to extort money from me!
Serves them right for behaving like spoiled children when they got caught being naughty!
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Great, thanks for the ID, againMel wrote:Lovely!
And your other LBJ is a Marico Flycatcher
Hunting cannot be considered a sport as all contestants in a sport should know they are playing the game!