Memories of Marloth and Tamboti Trip Jan 2018

[Flutterby]

Haven't been to the potholes in years!! Lovely!

Great to see cheetah!

[Lisbeth]

Beautiful photos! Have you got a new camera?

Where are the potholes and the graveyard

Lovely pic of the elephants and the bull looks like a big tusker

Roger, I do not think that it's a falcon, but a black-shouldered Kite.

[RogerFraser]

Very busy 2 days. How lucky to see cheetahs

We do seem to have luck with Cheetahs in KNP some more coming later

Nice big pics, Rog!
What is that symbol on the gravestone?
The potholes are beautiful indeed!
I like the big tusker!

It is a masons symbol .Was actually quite interesting to see all the different religions and symbols in the graveyard .

Haven't been to the potholes in years!! Lovely!
Great to see cheetah!

we also went quite a few years ago and wanted to go have a day outside .

Beautiful photos! Have you got a new camera?
Where are the potholes and the graveyard
Lovely pic of the elephants and the bull looks like a big tusker
Roger, I do not think that it's a falcon, but a black-shouldered Kite.

still the same camera as we used the last few trips .Easier to take nice pics in Marloth as the animals tend to be closer . Its Bork luck potholes and the Pilgramsrest Graveyard . for the ID birds is not my strong point

[RogerFraser]

A little bit further on we found a monkey on sentry duty



This youngster seemed to be feeding on his own



At the bird hide we only found this Grey heron .



Further up the S28 towards Lower Sabie a dead tree held some of the cleaning crew



And then after re-joining the H4 we came across a huge traffic Jam . not our favorite thing .A passing car told us a Lion was down the bank towards the Sabie river side . We dutifully joined the queue and then spotted a flash of brown ...



at least it wasn't a flat Lion we half expected to not get much of a sighting .The next minute there was a roar in the bushes next to the car and out popped the female lioness calling for her pride or something else we never found out exactly what ......


as luck would have it we found ourselves not at the back but now right at the front of queue where she had popped out the bushes .


She wondered back and forwards across the road calling and the queue of cars followed until eventually she moved back into thicker bushes .



We carried on towards Lower Sabie

[Alf]

A typical traffic jam in the south

[Lisbeth]

Nice pic of the vervet and you got some great shots of the lion

Thank you for the graveyard and pothole

[Klipspringer]

Nice drive, and lucky with the congestion as you are saying some are oft "sightings" where really nothing is to see.

Which bird hide is this?

[Lisbeth]

If we are on the S28 it can only be Ntandanyathi and I know that branch

[Richprins]

Nice sightings and pics, Rog! So nice to see lions actually moving during the day!

My favourite is the heron pic...interesting angle!

[Flutterby]

Don't you love it when luck puts you at the best spot at the right time?!