Frost, Fires & Family Time

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Interesting... is a very nice way to describe Umgeni =O:

But wow! your luck didn't seem to run out at all :shock: Cheetahs again as well as another aardwolf, lion again and an eland that doesn't run off. Can it get any better?
I don't think so. :-0


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great shots again, That 4x4 section looks normal :twisted: =O: =O:


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Another aardwolf!! Becoming quite normal now!! lol \O \O

Good spotting of the cheetah! ^Q^ The look very cute! :-0


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What kind of fellow swims in the pool when the heading says "Frost"? =O:

But seems you are still young, PJL... X#X

So many aardwolwe! 0: -O- (That is the plural, by the way! ;-) )


All nice pics, a restful outing. :yes:


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Some evil bug just crawled under my skin,...

and it's gonna cost me dearly,...


Heh,.. H.e
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Lisbeth wrote:
Oh and of course there was another aardwolf.
Of course :O^ Incredible :shock: ^Q^ ^Q^ ^Q^

Terrible road 0*\

Amazing sunset :yes:

What did S see? :shock: O-/
Well... S initially blurted out something about impala and eland which was something of a running joke... her mind wasn't quite functioning at the time ^0^ =O:
Mel wrote:Interesting... is a very nice way to describe Umgeni =O:

But wow! your luck didn't seem to run out at all :shock: Cheetahs again as well as another aardwolf, lion again and an eland that doesn't run off. Can it get any better?
I don't think so. :-0
Can it get any better? I'll let you decide Mel ;-)
PRWIN wrote:great shots again, That 4x4 section looks normal :twisted: =O: =O:
Ja it does look normal. I took the pics at the bottom of any more "interesting" sections so I think the trickier parts weren't in view. Anyway, if you've got a 4x4 it's probably terribly easy but we have a 4x2 0' lol
Flutterby wrote:Another aardwolf!! Becoming quite normal now!! lol \O \O

Good spotting of the cheetah! ^Q^ The look very cute! :-0
Thanks Flutts O0
4 aardwolf in 4 days... quite normal yet quite incredible \O
Richprins wrote:What kind of fellow swims in the pool when the heading says "Frost"? =O:

But seems you are still young, PJL... X#X

So many aardwolwe! 0: -O- (That is the plural, by the way! ;-) )


All nice pics, a restful outing. :yes:
We must have icelandic blood in our family somewhere 0*\
H. erectus wrote:Some evil bug just crawled under my skin,...

and it's gonna cost me dearly,...
Are you planning a trip H.e? I must say our animal sightings were quite extraordinary during this trip... many people must visit the park and see nothing more than blesbok & zebra 0:
Still, the views are awesome \O


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You really had so much luck on this trip ^Q^ ^Q^


Next trip to the bush??

Let me think......................
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Alf wrote:You really had so much luck on this trip ^Q^ ^Q^
Thanks Alf X#X
More on the way O** O**


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Screeching to a halt, S had been mumbling something about eland and really not making any sense. I think in her excitement she remembered where we had seen some eland earlier in the day and suddenly they were replaced by this apparition

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Except we weren't dreaming... she really was just sitting there about 100m from us - much closer than the males had been on the other side O/\ O/\ O\/ O\/

The kids soon spotted the other lioness a bit further back in the long grass ^Q^ ^Q^

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It was getting late already and the sun had gone down, so we set ourselves a cut-off time that we felt was good enough to make it back to camp in time for gate closing and did our best with high iso settings on the cameras. Best of all it was only us at the sighting \O

Before long the lionesses started coming closer O\/ O\/

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There was a herd of zebra the other side of our car and it appeared that these 2 were very much in hunting mode O:V

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The intent in their eyes was incredible :shock:
But after a bit of stalking they decided to rest again for a while

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There was some yawning

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As well as what appeared to be some star-gazing lol

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The posing continued O:V

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They were soon up again and with the rather menacing look in their eyes we felt we needed to wind the car windows up which I think was a good thing. One of the lionesses came circling around our car several times and then went off on an unsuccessful zebra chase. The other then came along and repeated the stalking of our car at which point it was time for us to leave. As we started moving the kids started shouting about a lion chasing us... sure enough in the mirrors I had a lion bounding along behind me :-? :shock: 0:
I decided the best policy was to stop which totally confused the lioness, so then she wandered off to find her friend. As one of them was looking longingly down at the zebra that had got away it made for my favourite photo of the entire trip O:V O:V :-0

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There was massive excitement in the car on the way back about being chased by lions. Did they think we were an overgrown zebra missing its stripes or something? -O-

We made it back to camp just in time and there was more excitement when looking back at the photos from the evening. The very low light levels had meant that it was only really possible to get decent images when the lionesses weren't moving, but even so it was possible to see some tell-tale marks on the collared lioness in a couple of the pics....

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We can't say for sure, but having watched the lionesses in Addo so closely over the years I'm 99% certain that this one has a litter of newborn cubs hidden away somewhere - the dark circles around her teats are a dead giveaway O:V \O :-0

TBC


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Now you are going to post photo's of the cubs the way your luck has been going :shock: :shock: =O: =O: =O: . Great shots again. here I was thinking of doing some night scape photography while I,m there =O: =O: =O: :X: :X:


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