Lovely pics of the flowers and creepy crawlies!
Table for One - my first solo safari
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No, no, no. Please don't take the cheetahs' spots away!
Lovely pics of the flowers and creepy crawlies!
Lovely pics of the flowers and creepy crawlies!
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Hilarious again, Ex! Very clever! 
Not crazy about bugs, but nice pics!
Not crazy about bugs, but nice pics!
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I struggled to spot his spots
Next trip to the bush??
Let me think......................
Let me think......................
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A cheetah is wandering aimlessly around the Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park one day when he spots a lone American tourist with a large eraser........... 
Great stuff ExFmem and the macro pics are superb.
It must be quite difficult to spot those little critters in the flowers.
Great stuff ExFmem and the macro pics are superb.
It must be quite difficult to spot those little critters in the flowers.
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don't touch at our loves....
love the flower and the bugs... all magnificent
my prefered : the half moon
love the flower and the bugs... all magnificent
my prefered : the half moon
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Simply wonderful shots of all the insects, ExFmem
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As always, I so appreciate your feedback and comments, so thank you Sis, Mel (GO MACRO, you won't regret it and will be richly rewarded and learn so much about the "unseen world"), Flutts, RP, Alf (hahaha), Dewi (Mr. Jokester), nan, and Pumbaa . 
Re: Table for One - my first solo safari
The following day I decided to drive the Nossob route since I would be moving to Mata Mata soon and staying on that side for a couple days.
Very quiet drive, so I decided to head to Melkvlei picnic area and do some macro work.
Just before I got there, a gentleman stopped me and told me there was a big male lion in the tall grasses just off the picnic table area at Melkvlei, but wasn't visible unless he raised his head.
Whew! I thanked him for the info., saying I had planned to do some macro photography there, so appreciated the heads up.
Him: "You can still do your photography, just keep an eye out for the lion."
Right. I'm on the ground focusing on an ant, my field of view is about 1/2 inch, and I'm gonna see a male lion that can only occasionally be seen with binoculars. NOT!
Evening drive I went to see if the cheetahs were still hanging around the Auob side. Yep, there were some cheetahs at Houmed, (not sure who, but 3 of them) who were obviously intimidated by a very pregnant lioness slowing making her way to the waterhole, so no pics of them.
Last day at TweeR I decided to go the Auob route to look for the cheetahs yet again, to no avail.
Hornbill w/ gooey breakfast
On the way back I did have the good fortune of finding a meerkat clan with some very tiny youngsters and even managed a photo of one nursing, something I hadn't seen before in all our trips. So sweet.
Next - moving on to Mata Mata....
Very quiet drive, so I decided to head to Melkvlei picnic area and do some macro work.
Just before I got there, a gentleman stopped me and told me there was a big male lion in the tall grasses just off the picnic table area at Melkvlei, but wasn't visible unless he raised his head.
Whew! I thanked him for the info., saying I had planned to do some macro photography there, so appreciated the heads up.
Him: "You can still do your photography, just keep an eye out for the lion."
Right. I'm on the ground focusing on an ant, my field of view is about 1/2 inch, and I'm gonna see a male lion that can only occasionally be seen with binoculars. NOT!
Evening drive I went to see if the cheetahs were still hanging around the Auob side. Yep, there were some cheetahs at Houmed, (not sure who, but 3 of them) who were obviously intimidated by a very pregnant lioness slowing making her way to the waterhole, so no pics of them.
Last day at TweeR I decided to go the Auob route to look for the cheetahs yet again, to no avail.
Hornbill w/ gooey breakfast
On the way back I did have the good fortune of finding a meerkat clan with some very tiny youngsters and even managed a photo of one nursing, something I hadn't seen before in all our trips. So sweet.
Next - moving on to Mata Mata....
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Chicken! afraid of a sleeping lion 
Double giant eagle owls
The meerkats get the first price, they are wonderful
Double giant eagle owls
The meerkats get the first price, they are wonderful
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You managed to get a flutterby with the lioness!
The meerkats are too cute!
The meerkats are too cute!