and came across a sighting of African spoonbills and a yellow billed stork sharing and dead tree.
As it was already late we had to turn around and came across more nyalas already close to camp and busy in feeding.
It is always amazing when these beautiful antelopes could be admired in such a great number.
Gladly we still had a bit time left to pay the causeway another visit and drive via the tar road the little detour back to camp. Despite that there was only few water left we saw another open billed stork and another african jacana.
We sighed when we stopped on the high water bridge as now finally we realized that our last hours in the park had begun and drove in a very quiet mood back to camp at least the group of baboons which came across out of which some members had chosen a strange tree stump to sit on whilst others drank from the puddles the rain had left on the road cheered our mood a bit up
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and also our final braai was lovely and yummy and gladly it in fact kept dry for the rest of the evening and after we lit our fire (we were the first ones) the others followed as well and had a fantastic last evening and with no bat in our room and the cool temperature we slept again very well that night.
Sunday, 28. February 2016 – Shingwedzi – Punda Maria Gate
Our final roads during that trip: H1-7 – S55 – S56 – S58 – H13-1 – S99
Our final morning dawned and we had no chance in packing our things together after a vitalizing hot coffee and said good bye to our last camp. It was still extreme dark and again a very rainy morning but the park needed the rain so desperately so we still prayed for more rain.
Gladly when we turned into our favourite drive the Mphongololo in that area it got brighter and allowed us to photograph a wooly necked stork,
another nyala,
and a masked weaver female was feeding on some yummy seeds
but unfortunately lost one.
to be continued.....for the very last time
And with that, the dwarf mongoose reminded me of our hedgehogs
