Browns in Kruger July 2016

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15th Lower Sabie to Mpila Imfolozi continued

It was a fair size buffalo herd and the 1 chap was getting picked on by oxpeckers bigtime. The lion were still peaking over the hill, but we still had a long haul to Mpila camp, so didn’t hang around long.

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The view is fantastic on the drive up towards Hilltop Camp and a few more locals popped up on the way down to Mpila but we only stopped a couple of times.

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Mpila to me is like 1 of the bush camps in Kruger as it’s quiet, but the fact there’s no fence makes it even better because there’s always general game walking around and one never knows what is going to come cruising past, so we decided to do a quick drive to Bhejani hide and come back to camp earlier than usual for a relaxing braai.

The road to the hide produced a few more locals and it was very cool to park off in the hide and watch the ellie and rhino interaction while both were trying to drink.

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We stopped at viewpoint 17 where you are permitted to exit your car and Hawkeyes pulled out the selfie stick again for a family pic to end our afternoon drive.

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I made a fairly large fire as it was our last night in the bush and Hawkeyes got a pic of the Cow and I trying to keep warm, while a scallywag kept an eye on us from a distance.

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The next morning we ducked straight out the park as we had plenty things to sort out at home.

Lastly, thanks to all of you guys that have shared our adventure with us and for allowing us the opportunity to relive our trip.

Bushcraft, the Cow and the Rats. X#X


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That is a serious number of oxpeckers! :shock:

Looking forward to Imfolozi... O**


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Strange that the oxpeckers are concentrating on one animal only :-?

RP having his daily green veggies :twisted:

There is not much water :shock:

Excellent shot of the vulture \O

Lovely pic of the two generations of rhinos O\/

Another nice family pic!

:ty: for yet another fascinating trip of the Browns ^Q^ ^Q^


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Ja, looks quite dry there too! O-/

Thanks for another cracking trip, BC, and great to meet the gang again! X#X X#X X#X


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Also thought it looked dry. :-( Great family pic! \O

Thanks for another entertaining Brown TT! ^Q^ ^Q^ \O


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Finally caught up, Bushcraft, right to the end O\/

Must say your leopard and lion luck was still incredible as always and also the time with RP must have been entertaining as always.

It has been a long time ago until we visited Hluhluwe-Umfolozi but one day I will for sure return as I also do have fantastic memories ^Q^

:ty: for another very entertaining report, Bushcraft 0/*


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Better late than never.

Thank you B.C. for another thoroughly entertaining and informative travel tale.

I have memorised your formula for leopard spotting and come up with the answer that we should visit the park in the month of Jutember between the dates of 1.123 and 15% of the square root of 1256.23 and we should see 7 leopard. Then we must also take into account that we only have 4 eyes with which to spot them whereas you guys have 10 eyes.

Man, lost count of the number of leopard you guys saw.

The photos are all so amazing and so nice to see the whole clan in one photo.


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