We took our longest trip yet in late July of 18. 18 days in the park, where we traversed from the southermost entry gate up to Crook’s Corner, the extreme north-eastern corner of the park.
Family and landscape:
a visitor our first day in camp
Bubblegum flavored cereal with bubblegum flavored milk…
Braai lunch at Tamboti
the great grey-green greasy Limpopo, all set about with fever-trees
game meat spaghetti is a family tradition
bridge over the Oliphants
the dam at Mopani
braai at Parfuri, near Crook’s Corner
Crook’s Corner
the Tropic of Capricorn
Animals
This big guy just plain muscled us back about 1/2km
Leopard under the bush
Leopard
the first Eland we ever found in Kruger
these roan are very rare- less than 50 in the whole park
ellie and I watched this fight while on foot
jackal with kit
rare daytime honey badger
lions hunting impala
horrific wounds on the back of this hippo
our first cape clawless otter
warthogs in a pit elephants dug for clean water
Birds
Francolin
Sunbird
Ellie calls the Batelur the “candy corn” eagle