Grietjie Private Reserve

[harrys]

[Richprins]

All sorts of interesting stuff, Spartjie!

[Flutterby]

Loving your daily updates.

[Alf]

[Lisbeth]

Good that you managed to fix your camera

[Pumbaa]

Sprocky,

fantastic Giraffe shots

[Sprocky]

Yesterday afternoon I took a strange selection of pics.

At about 16h00 I was busy washing my dishes, when I saw a herd of Elephant moving past the house in the direction of the river. They were in no hurry, stopping to feed along the way. When the dishes were done, I went out to watch them, they then slowly moved out of view. I grabbed the cameras and went down to the river to see if I could find them there. Just as I was leaving the house, I noticed that a few of them were still here, right next to my road...

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I left these ones and went after the main herd. Down at the river, there was no sign of them. They had obviously stopped where I could not drive. All I got at the river was this Impala having a late afternoon drink...

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My best bet was to head back up to the house, to get the ones that were there when I left the house. When I got back, they were also gone. I could hear them, but had no visual. I then heard a helicopter flying along the river. I went to the stoep and got a few pics of the rangers going home after doing Rhino monitoring...

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It was now time to light the braai. While sitting at the fire, the setting sun looked superb...

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Hopefully I have better luck with sightings tomorrow. Until then...

[Lisbeth]

The elephants must have heard the helicopter long before you did and have gone into hiding mode

[Alf]

Oh how i miss sitting next to the fire in the bush

[Richprins]

Very good journal entry, Sparky!

It must be difficult losing a whole herd of elephant?