They Can't All Be Gems...

[Mel]

Ouch! Sorry to hear about your shoulders. I can partly relate to it as my tennis and golf arm (yep, different things and normal people do away with either...) started three days into our trip which made photographing a really strenuous exercises And I'm sure bad shoulders hurt even more But glad you got it sorted and were hopefully able to enjoy the time after the meds had kicked in.

Hilarious intro! Totally up to your high standards!

Instead of macro you went for exceptional reflection photos this time around, it seems

The hippo / croc episode is also rather funny

[Pumbaa]

Caught up, ExFmem,

and must say that I love all your sunset dam shots - All the birds are beautiful especially the spoonbills and the yellow billed storks and then had to laught about the hippo chasing the crocodiles away - Must have been funny to watch

Ready for more

[ExFmem]

RP - don't remember the doctor's name, but he was a youngish chap, dark hair, very amiable and knowledgeable. He was on duty Monday May 21st.

Flutts, Sis, and Mel - thanks for appreciating the hippo/croc encounter - never saw it before, but this particular hippo could have been the same one we saw on 2 other visits to Sunset Dam this trip. Wonder where he learned the behavior?

Yep, Mel, my macro was VERY limited this trip as you'll see coming up soon.

Hi Pumbaa - Welcome!

[ExFmem]

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Our days at Lower Sabie were relaxing and the evenings enjoyable, whether we ate at the restaurant or cooked out at "home". The sightings were quite predictable, with no real outstanding moments, except for seeing our first ever blind snake. Apparently it was not deaf, as it squiggled off the road rather quickly.

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Owls always bring a smile, as did this Pearl-spotted owlet

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The bridge produced this enormous croc

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and a Jacana with a juicy morsel.

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[Richprins]

What a spread of animals in this sequence, Ex...no mammals!

[Lisbeth]

I still have not managed to see a pearlie

[Flutterby]

Lovely pics.

[ExFmem]

That was only a partial posting - I'm still encountering "Site Can't Be Reached", etc even tho' I post fewer pics per entry. Then I can't get back on even with another computer/browser. (Safari - "can't establish a secure connection....")

VERY frustrating and time consuming. Will try later to finish the entry since I can get on this morning.

[Lisbeth]

I am so sorry, Sis, that you have that kind of difficulties, but you are the only one, so it must be something on your side

[Flutterby]

Lis, this was the same thing I was getting when working on the challenges and uploading multiple pictures.

Ex - I can't give you a solution. I just post fewer pics, then go out of the topic and back in again, but that's when you're posting a single pic in a post, so I can see it's a bit of a problem when you're trying to do a TT. What about using TinyPic?

Also, when I got kicked out and couldn't get back in (even with another browser) I would reset my router, then I could get back in.