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Heksie wrote:Great campsite Harrys
Great pics of the ellies
Now how was your first night at Tsendze? With the nightsky and no electricity... please tell me that you at least didn't have loud neighbours... and how was rodger and elena?

Thanks Heksie

Yes I can tell you we had very well behaved neighbours the one omie even came over and boosted my wet wood to burn very good

All I can say is Tsendze is a great camp and camping in such a wonderfull place under the stars is AWESOME I'll do it any time again , the absence of electricity did'nt bother us at all

Rodger was on leave but Elena was a great host and visited every campsite every night

25 Aug- day 2......:

First sightings of the day,Black Crakes :





Waterbuck:





Sharpes grysbok:



Elephant:





Elephant with 2 trunks



Marching away:



Zebra and Impala:



Water monitor on it's way to raid a birds nest:



Day 2 to be continued later......

Day 2 continues......

A special Toko for you know who :



Tsesebe:





Gossiping Wildebeast I think they where talking about my dirty car :



Young w/beast:



Lots of Ostriches:



Cory Bustard with a Toko flying past:



Used to be a Elephant:



Namaqua Dove:



Boabab tree, what a magnificent tree:



End of day 2, next trip to Shingwedzi......

Day 3 - 26 Aug - Tsendze to Shingwedzi and back:

Hayena- first sighting, mother and young one:



Hey ma wait something is biting me





Beautiful Kudu:



Big Elephant:



Baffaloe:





Grey Heron and Crocodile:



Eagle far away:



Damwall at Kanniedood dam....no more wall :



Flood debris along the river :





Day 3 will continue.........

Bushveld Jock wrote:Hi Harrys,

Lovely to see a new TT on one of the best Kruger Camps, namely Tsendze. Lovely pic of the Sharpe's grysbok , Baobab tree and "underwater" scene of turtles swimming. I want to agree on the name of the big tusker seen near Letaba.

What is your best spot near Tsendze to view animals?

Thanks BJ for joining glad you like my TT so far

We didn't really have a best spot near Tsendze because we went to Shingwedzi and Satara, but when we drove around I think part of the S50 and the mooiplaas road from the S50 to the S49

Day 3......Part 2:

Giraffe:



Very grumpy Ellie, he chaced us for about 300m that I had to reverse and then went on destroying a perfectly innocent tree :



Calmness:



Crocodile:



Elephant family:



Another great view:



Wildebeast and some hippos:



Quellias:



Vulture scanning the area:



Hammerkop:



Feld after the fire:



Another great scene:



Hippos checking things out:



I nearly missed this birdie, Black Crake :



Goliath Heron:



Saddle Billed Stork:



So day 3 got to a end, lots off great sightings and some close calls with some very grumpy ellies but we had a great day and settled at camp with a cold beer and the fire burnning, ready for a braai

Day 4 to follow.....

Heksie wrote:Harrys now that is the way to end a great day a lekker fire burning and an ice cold beer
You really had great sightings and such your landscapes are brilliant. It seems that you had a bit of everything on your trip
Love the black crake and the ellies and of course my fave bird-the hamerkop

That is one of the reasons why I say Tsendze is my fave camp... they come and visit every night and want to know how are you, even with Rodger away, Elena still came on her lonesome to you guys They are rare jewels...

We braaied every night and after braaiing we made a fire again and just sat and enjoyed the quiteness and enjoying our drinks ofcourse

Jip Heksie lots of different scenes, animals and birds

Must say it's the first time anyone from KNP came to see how we are , and sommer every night

Day 4 - 27 Aug, Tsendze to Satara and back :

We decided to go to Satara via Olifants and maybe we'll see some cats, I wonder if thats a good idea.................

Burchills Coucal:



Steen bok:



Giraffe:



Kudu:



From Olifants:



About 3 km's outside Olifants we found this.....:





And about 1 km further.......Lioness...thats all I got a leg and foot, a ear and a back, then she stood up, looked at us and flopped down in the grass again.....that was our only Lion of the trip



Hayena:



Zebras:



Sorry have to go now will continue later.....maybe we saw another cat

So we continue day 4:

We saw people turn around and when we asked they showed us this.......:



Leopard no 2



After watching this beauty for about 30 mins we moved on.....

Ground hornbill:



Young Kudu bull:



Ellies having a nice mud bath:



Bateleur:





Shy Sharpes Grysbok:



Olifants from the lookout point:



Toko posing nicely:



Sorry have to go now.........

Day 4...the end:

Another Leopard(no 3 ) now how did they spot it :
This Leopard was lying at the edge of the Letaba river:





Crocodile:



This huge Baffaloe herd, we estemated about 300+:





Ostriches:



Grey-headed Bush-shrike(Bookworm says they know it as a Spookvoel ) :





And that was day 4....... What a great day