And then the rain set in or at dusk the bush comes alive

[Flutterby]

What a beast of a lion!!

Lovely pics of the martial!

[Richprins]

Ai...naughty baboon picking his nose and scratching his butt at the same time...

What a selection again, Pumbaa - very interesting permutations.

I love the tiny waterbuck!

[Alf]

That buffalo looks as if his skin is too tight for his body

[Bushcraft]

I have around 25 pages of TT to catch up here Pumbaa

Life is so busy at the moment, I wrote my entire TT on Sunday I will definitely catch up this Sunday when I can focus for an hour in peace

I can see your pics are fantastic though as normal

[Mel]

More awesome shots of that handsome male

And another cutie waterbuck

Great martial sighting too

[Pumbaa]

Great pics this time around

At least the lion was awake

Marvellous "take off" shot of the martial eagle

Also the baboon with the lil'one is great

Lots of mud along with the buffs, big and small and a very cute water buck

Gladly there was mud around as indeed it was at that stage very dry in the park

What a beast of a lion!!

Lovely pics of the martial!

Both lions were huge and had full bellies as well

Ai...naughty baboon picking his nose and scratching his butt at the same time...

What a selection again, Pumbaa - very interesting permutations.

I love the tiny waterbuck!

Finally we got such a baboon back riding shot as they are not easy to capture them as I want

[Pumbaa]

That buffalo looks as if his skin is too tight for his body

That cute buffie had indeed still a lot of skin left

I have around 25 pages of TT to catch up here Pumbaa

Life is so busy at the moment, I wrote my entire TT on Sunday I will definitely catch up this Sunday when I can focus for an hour in peace

I can see your pics are fantastic though as normal

Have fun in doing so and no hurry

More awesome shots of that handsome male

And another cutie waterbuck

Great martial sighting too

A bit pity was that the martial sighting was too short for our liking

[Pumbaa]

Needless to say that when water is around elephants are not far and so it was here as well as same cam running from behind the dam and nearly jumped right into the water.





After the elephant settled into the water waterbuck mom and her youngster dared also to come closer to quench their thirst.





Meanwhile also an elephant mom plus a relatively large offspring also appeared from the bush and started to wet themselves and take a drink but they did not dare to take a bath as well so they





walked to another part of the dam and there they repeated what they just did close to the elephant bull but were obviously not in the mood to take a bath.



In the meantime another elephant bull also came running



and finally took a bath together with his mate.



Whilst the elephant bulls were busy in the water a large group of zebras also appeared at the dam to quench their thirst

[Pumbaa]

joined by the elephant mom and her "little" one who were meanwhile busy in doing their bush finish with the mud.



We definitely spent already lot of time at that dam over the years but we never saw it that full of animals here as this year although must say that only few birds were around





as normally when the dam is full same is full of water birds.



The zebras had a lot of youngsters between their rows and we for sure had a fantastic time in photographing same



as moreover we were nearly the only car at that dam but as the zebras were about to disappear whereas the waterbucks already went their way we also decided to carry on.



Although the day started cloudy with even a bit of rain during our drive now it cleared up more and more and the sun came out again as well and put the banana birds into the best light



and with the sun the heat also returned so the rest of our ride along the S36 was quiet but a couple of kudus as well as giraffes were around.



to be continued.....

[Lisbeth]

The first elephant bull has a nice pair of tusks

Nice with so much life around the waterhole Strange that there were no birds, but having rained earlier.......