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Re: Richprins' Short Business Trips to The Park
Posted: Sun Oct 20, 2019 9:02 am
by Flutterby
Cute jackal and monkey!

Re: Richprins' Short Business Trips to The Park
Posted: Mon Oct 21, 2019 7:59 pm
by Pumbaa
That monkey shot is very well captured, Richprins
Also fantastic jackal sighting

Re: Richprins' Short Business Trips to The Park
Posted: Tue Oct 22, 2019 6:35 pm
by Bushcraft
Re: Richprins' Short Business Trips to The Park
Posted: Sat Oct 26, 2019 4:22 pm
by Richprins
In desperation I had the bright idea of going to see if the elephant had maybe made some water at the dam, and lo and behold....waterhole action at last!
The elephant makes a very deep hole sometimes, and especially the baby warthogs would disappear!

Only to reappear!
Then off home for lunch!
But not to be!
The locals had blocked the gate from outside as they were not standing for the silliness of full quotas for the day....free entrance is free entrance!
The trapped tourists waited for a while, and when antipoaching arrived I ducked back to Crocobridge as these guys have a very determined look about them, to put it mildly, and clearly had better things to do on a Saturday lunchtime...
Re: Richprins' Short Business Trips to The Park
Posted: Sat Oct 26, 2019 4:33 pm
by Lisbeth
Bad conscience?

Re: Richprins' Short Business Trips to The Park
Posted: Sat Oct 26, 2019 4:38 pm
by Richprins
The lady at the camp gate asked for my permit and was a bit nonplussed when I said I had already gone out and failed...
But what can one do? So brave Richprins made a plan and bought some tea and went to sit on the lawn and watched the gate for signs of progress from a safe distance!
Very pleasant indeed!
It was quite absorbing and a bit cartoonish, as every now and again a vehicle would scream across the low-level bridge looking purposeful, and then scream back again. A bicycle even formed part of the action!
Triing triing!
RP: "Leachy, I'm going to be late for lunch, as we are being held hostage here at Croc! Don't be afraid!"
le: "What lunsh?"
DW: "You ish not allowed tea!"
Anyway, spot the aminal!
Eventually it seemed that normal traffic had resumed, as the locals had won the day and taxis came streaming in across the bridge. So after hiding my laptop and camera in the spare-wheel area just in case I departed at speed, my 4th trip through the gate for the day!!
After an uneventful trip back to Marloth I was rather surprised to find a shocking array of empty beer bottles etc strewn around there, and water spurting all over the place. It seems leachy had taken his supervisory role of Dwarf extremely seriously, including libational support.
But we had a nice lunsh and went home the next morning!
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Re: Richprins' Short Business Trips to The Park
Posted: Sat Oct 26, 2019 6:34 pm
by Lisbeth
You cannot leave those youngsters alone for a few hours and see what happens.............It would have been even worse if you had not left them

Re: Richprins' Short Business Trips to The Park
Posted: Sat Oct 26, 2019 7:21 pm
by Alf
Eish eish eish eish
Where can a baboon go without making trouble
Re: Richprins' Short Business Trips to The Park
Posted: Sat Oct 26, 2019 8:46 pm
by RogerFraser

End to the trip at the gate .

Re: Richprins' Short Business Trips to The Park
Posted: Sun Oct 27, 2019 10:02 am
by Flutterby
Good idea to wait out the queue at camp!
