I don't have any photos of the holes, will look if I can make them anywhere soon here. Still have the tent :)
So we left at the kori bustard... Just before a waterhole, I think my favourite, since we came back here 3 more times
The waterhole was totally empty, so we didn't even bother making photos over there.
It took a long time before we saw something else again, but finally when we were coming closer to Balule we saw an animal again - martial eagle
And somehow we managed to capture this one on
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And we arrived at Balule. Nothing spectacular after that Kori bustard, although we did see some animals (buffalo, elephant, impala, etc.) but far, far off.
We set up camp very quickkly, within 45 minutes everything was going great. We laid the meat and other things in the communal cooler and decided to relax a little. We walked around camp and suddenly, when we stood at the fence was a big hyena. Of course we didn't bring a camera, but well.. We heard that they are always there, so we managed later on to get some decent pics with a point-and-shoot
That afternoon we decided to do a little drive. First we wanted to do some gravel roads, because we hadn't done many till now.
So we started of and suddenly one screamed loud: Struisvogel (austrich) but it was only a branch. We had a good laugh and went further.
We decided to make a U-turn, because we wanted to see the olifants-bridge
But just before our U-turn:
Black backed jackal
Next was soms beautiful dove we luckily saw. I don't know it's exact name, could look it up, but don't have the time at the moment
We arrived at the olifants bridge and a lot was going on. Hippos were enjoying the sun, crocodiles were everywhere and we saw lots and lots of birds. Ducks, wagtails and a lot more. We even could hear the bats under the bridge - sadly we could not really see them.
After standing there for two or three minutes, some people asked us to come. They were outside the lines, but only a meter or so. Bad of me, I know, but the urge to know why I should go there won and I must say, I don't regret it, because there were two beautiful big snakes (of which one was visible reasonably well)
We drove a little further to the lookout point before returning:
On the way back we again didn't see much, but the drive was still worth it!
Two of our sightings which I can't recall when they were..
And somewhere we saw this boy, somewhere on the day
And this one
For the next episode: on our way to Olifants and suddenly to Satara. Why? You'll see later!
The varaan is called Monitor; there are rock and water monitors.
But south-east Asia sounds interesting too. And maybe you could arrest some of those rhino horn users while you're in that corner of the world. 
mattie010
