From Floods and Surprises in River beds

[Richprins]

Lovely stuff, Pumbaa!

It is indeed a great camp, and very lush and peaceful. I am just concerned about maintenance there...

Love the terrapins, and of course lucky with the rhino!

[Flutterby]

Some lovely sightings from camp. Which camp was it?

[Pumbaa]

The bushbuck is so cute and I love your orange/red flower and the Terrapins with thick-knee on-lookers

A Hadedah chick

Yet another waterbuck trip

Yes, waterbuck overloaded It was funny to spot that many terrapins at only one spot

[Pumbaa]

Lovely stuff, Pumbaa!

It is indeed a great camp, and very lush and peaceful. I am just concerned about maintenance there...

Love the terrapins, and of course lucky with the rhino!

It was great to spot another rhino mom plus smaller one I guess nearly all camps in Kruger need a bit more maintenance

[Pumbaa]

Some lovely sightings from camp. Which camp was it?

Berg en Dal - We always had great sightings in that area of nearly everything

[Pumbaa]

After nearly the whole day on the roads we decided to do only a short afternoon drive which leaded us as always to Matjulu waterhole. During our drive we noticed a large pond in the middle of the veld which we did not notice during the morning because of no animals were around but now it was rush hour and we detected a giraffe,



zebras were about to hurry into the direction of that natural waterhole





and further down we even spotted kudus



and a very well hidden buffalo – It was in fact quite a lot around.



We took already enough time into account which we wanted to spend at Matjulu in case there are our beloved white fronted bee eaters around and to our luck they were around and posed for us very willingly.



Everywhere it was such a loud and plentiful twittering that it was such a joy they either were taking a dust bath



or landed right onto a branch close to where we parked so we always



switched from the dust bathing ones to the

[Pumbaa]

ones who landed on the branch. It were uncountable of them around and we had such a great time as moreover we nearly spend the whole time there totally alone with nearly no other cars.



Now it was in fact time to return to camp but close to the crossing to the road leading to the S120 I noticed some suspicious looking stripe of fur under a bush and after I reassured myself with the binoculars I told Timon there is a lion lying under that bush. “Under which bush?” he then replied and after I pointed same out to him he said “I cannot see one! You are nuts!” I now started to explain at great length which bush I mean but he still could not see one but luckily same got obviously tired of our explanations and debates and now stood up and there no longer explanations were necessary



but he only changed position and sat down again now observing the other direction and then flopped down and was no longer to be seen.



For us it was then also the signal to carry on as it was already late and so we reached camp nearly by gate closing time but our game watching was not yet over as when we were about to carry our stuff from the car to the bungalow we noticed an approaching elephant herd in the riverbed





and to our luck they even came closer.





It was in fact a large elephant herd with even lots of little ones between them and they neither looked left nor right but went straight forward.





to be continued....

[RogerFraser]

Wow busy short drive .Love the the bee eaters

[Alf]

Wow never seen so many bee eaters together. That must be some kind of record

That is one huge male lion

[Richprins]

So nice to spot a big cat by yourself, Pumbaa!

Matjulu is very nice, as you say, and interesting the water appearing in the veld!

Interesting bird behaviour.