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A lovely brunch left and then it was off again to Pkop again
A sudden movement caught my eye and behold …………………………Exhibit A - Purple Crested Lourie – Although not the best pic – evidence O/\

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Shy - "chompie"

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Twigga!

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Then this lady caught our eye, an old injury,To the one that got away X#X

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TBC...


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0/* Greenville 0/* Thank you for popping in, much appreciated!

Our afternoon drive produced the unmentionables so I will not elaborate

It was our last night in PKop

Next up Kruger B'day ;-)


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"Veels", Happy, "Geluk", B'day, "Liewe", To, "Maatjie", You....... O**

No, this is not the script of the next "Lord of the rings" this my families attempt of singing "Happy,happy" to me =O: at 3:30 in the morning

My two little brothers looked terrible :shock: they blamed it on that darn poisonous mushroom :twisted: So it was left to the girls to do the packing and coffee duty. It was our last full day in the Park - off to Croc bridge for the night

We decided to drive to Skukuza via Voortrekker road and then proceeded to Croc

Goooooooood morning Kruger! O\/

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Voortrekker road - a very historic road, important to Kruger's history

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And what do you know - JOCK! :shock: ;-)

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This little nugget - tried to run, but could not hide

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0/* Greenville – Much appreciated :-)

I am still working on a strategy to get the brothers & beaver to ease off their early awekenings

It's a lost cause - I've tried EVERYTHING -O-

(The gate opens 04:30 in January, so for the first hour or 2, us girls hide behind our O:V )

They are in the mind set that if you are not the first at the gate, then you are not in Kruger

A Kruger birthday – always special! O\/ O\/ O\/
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We made a pitstop @ Afsaal & Skuks, and by 11:00 I could feel that the mercury would set some new records for a Kruger trip for us 0-

Another scorcher of a day, we put that pedal to the medal, and brave the heat for a few [O]

I have no idea where this was, somewhere hot!
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Can't even remember taking this pic...........................
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...............actually I have no recollection of events from Skukuza to Croc Bridge - Only fade hallucinations of swimming pools filled with ice & lots & lots of cold beverages :-? O**

By the time we reached Lower Sabie that's when things went south, (no pun int)

Beaver strapped each and every ice pack he could find to his body 0-

Tweedle dee & tweedle dum (2 brothers) threatened to jump into the Sabie if I didn't give them the reservation paper to show to the "tannie" behind the counter to fill up their stock, apparently it was "check reservations day" at L/Sabie - just their luck =O:

My mom refused to leave the walk in freezer, we had to call security ^0^

The rest of the family decided to take over the swimming pool, still 2 hours before check in and Croc Bridge don't have swimming pool 0*\

I on the other hand met up with old friends and crashed at their aircon bungalow for a while, X#X

Dankie C+N+J+R+P! 0/0 O0
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nan wrote:beautifull "can't even remember taking this pic" O/\ ^Q^
^Q^
0/* Nana!
Flutterby wrote:Sounds like a scorcher!! :shock: That's why we don't go in summer...I would just melt! =O:
=O: Ja, we were caught off guard, or as Beaver would state, "under supplied" 0*\ oi boys will be boys!

It was time to brave the last stretch to CB - O-/

These ellies caused a bit of a jam - mom had enough
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We made it to Croc-bridge , just in time, a storm was building on the horizon, and by 4 the skies opened O\/

The men decided to go on an afternoon drive and got saw some vervets close to camp,

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We ended the day with a night drive. A CB - night drive never fails to deliver ^Q^
Got the Vurhami pride close to camp, 10 min into our drive in fact. They went into stalk mode, and everybody waited in anticipation. A huge gathering of grazers formed ( impala,zebra & wildbeest) They luckily moved further off into the veld, much too the disappointment to those on the truck

I on the other hand was relieved, didn't know if I could stomach a kill that time of the night 0' We also saw lots of nocturnal animal, genet,bush-babies and even a civet!
A huge thank you (AGAIN) to Excellent our guide \O

Another b'day done & dusted, one I will never forget :-)


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It was our last day , we opt to exit @ Malelane

Close to camp we woke the Vurhami pride, they were successful \O

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I heard from Excellent on the ND that this little nugget's sister or brother :-? got taken by a crocodile a month before :-(
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We left the lions in peace, if you can call that peace :O^

By now the light drizzle had stopped, and we were admiring a troop of baboons when a very friendly couple informed us of an interesting sighting about 3 km back. Thank you friendly couple O0 But the odds of them still being there slim to none, or just maybe 0'
We turned the corner, Thank you Kruger O\/ O\/ O\/
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Mayor JAM! But we managed to squeeze in a couple [O]

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Apparently we just missed the cubs crossing the road
They looked hungry

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Oom Paul! O\/ 0/0
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Mel wrote:Super cheetah sighting! O\/ O\/ O\/
Twigga wrote:I have no idea where this was, somewhere hot! {...} Can't even remember taking this pic...........................
{...} ...............actually I have no recollection of events from Skukuza to Croc Bridge - Only fade hallucinations of swimming pools filled with ice & lots & lots of cold beverages :-? O**
What was in your drinks? :twisted:
Twigga wrote: Tweedle dee & tweedle dum (2 brothers) threatened to jump into the Sabie if I didn't give them the reservation paper to show to the "tannie" behind the counter to fill up their stock, apparently it was "check reservations day" at L/Sabie - just their luck =O:
=O: =O: =O:
Twigga wrote: My mom refused to leave the walk in freezer, we had to call security ^0^
Another =O: =O: =O:
Twigga wrote:I on the other hand met up with old friends and crashed at their aircon bungalow for a while, X#X
Ja, you can choose your friends, but not your family... And I'm saying that from the point of view of your fam. ^0^

=O: What was that you said about family................Mellspringer ;-)
0/* Mel


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