Africa Wild

Thanks for all the charming replies!



(BTW: "Drunch" is a late brunch that happens after lunch... )

Day 3 Part 4:




So the Dong, the Steed and HMS Herpes II left to go to the lair of Col. Schwarz.... (Sounds like the title of a rather unsavory movie one might find in a dark corner of a video store, but so be it... )


I accompanied Sprocky in the Steed, and noticed his green ribbon!














Temperatures couldn't rise any more if they tried, I don't think...it was some sort of "naughty forties" record that day at Sirheni... (Actually, leachy went somewhere else...but we were constantly expecting him to pop up anywhere by that stage! )



On this last full day, I eventually remembered to take a pic of the Sirheni turnoff!











For some reason I sommer took two, as Heksie would say...


So the second one is after "auto correct"...













Upon arrival, Sprocky and I put the kids to bed.





Col Schwarz: "Good Aftern..."

RP: "Fuck off, Schwarz, we've had a busy day!"



and Sprocky transferred his gear into the master bedroom...despite his pleas I had instructed him to sleep on the floor there...protocol, you know!





But he made a rather emphatic statement to mark his territory, so to say, and I was suitably subdued!












Go Fujifilm small camela!?




Col. Schwarz (in absentia): "So! Ve haf all of zem in vun basket, so to speak! I shall report to ze minister vunce ze radio has stopped meltink!"


As said before, there is a little small corner in the dirt next to the verandah that somehow retains a modicum of shade despite Schwarz's cunning afternoon sunray calculations, and Sprocks and I had a great time chewing the fat, as it were, with copious fluid intake to prevent dehydration, of course!


I was facing the dam/fence, when something caught my eye...




Spr: "Blahbla blahblalabla...Phalaborwa...blahbla...forums...balabla...sorry I couldn't bring much ice...balabla..."

RP: "Something has caught my eye!"

Spr: "Blahbla...what!?"

RP: "It's Schwarz's lame fish hooks supended from the eaves again trick...just help me out a bit!"

Spr: "Ok...all of them are out now...so anyway. As I was saying..."

RP: "Sable!"

Spr: "Gesundheit!"

RP: "No! There's a sable behind you!"


And there was! For some reason we could't get very good pics...












Spot the animal!












But it's proof, anyway!

An extremely rare sighting, IMO, which sort of got us up and running!

Has anyone ever told you that you are a chop????

It took you a year to get to this point. Somewhere in my small collection of photos from the last year I might find one of that Sable. Give me a week or two.

Sprocky wrote:
Has anyone ever told you that you are a chop????

Not at all!

Far fouler language is normally used!

A boy in class the other day told me to stop being so childish...long story but I spared him!

..... is not the same picture

but these ones of Sirheni turnoff are

superb green ribbon

Ja, nana...not the same picture...just joking!

Col. Schwarz: "Zis nan...I've heard of her...she ist sharp as eine rasiermesser... "

RP, maybe, just maybe the Sable is a bit more visible in this pic....

indeed it is

Excellent, Sprocks!

Let's post it 10 times on Duke's sable thread!

Just caught up here RP.

Next time you go birding, run this tune through your noggin'......




If you listen carefully, they do the Sable too.