Africa Wild

Interesting the giraffe having to take a runup for the hill!

Rog!

Lisbeth wrote:Beautiful photos of giraffes and zebras and giraffes and ellies

nan wrote:very tiny Zebra
love the group of Giraffes

nan extra one for H.e.

Flutterby wrote:Lovely pics at the waterhole!!
Wonder what was on the tar!

Or in the tar

Pumbaa wrote:Wonderful waterhole activity, Roger

Pumbaa

Richprins wrote:Interesting the giraffe having to take a runup for the hill!
Rog!

and love the way when they run it still seems like slow motion ...

So we reached the H3 tar .It was hot hot hot we turned towards afsaal .After about 5km we found a few cars parked off to the side and stopped to see what was happening.

Far off under a tree Cheetah






It was so hot the car tyres were leaving holes in the tar .





The cats were not going anywhere so we decided to go back to camp to prepare for our sunset drive .

a cheetah? If you say so

Cheetahs in Kruger
I spend so much time in searching them... without succes

More cheetahs

Hey, Rog!

Two cheetah killed an Impala in front of us many years ago, near Ngotso North, when it was hot like that!

The buck and the cheetah left spoor in the tar!

Before digital age, unfortunately, maybe a photo somewhere!

Lisbeth wrote: a cheetah? If you say so

Its there some more pics coming up soon

nan wrote:Cheetahs in Kruger
I spend so much time in searching them... without succes

I can say we have seen cheetah every trip in the last 5 years guess we just lucky as allot don't seem to find them ..

Alf wrote:More cheetahs

Richprins wrote:Hey, Rog!
Two cheetah killed an Impala in front of us many years ago, near Ngotso North, when it was hot like that!
The buck and the cheetah left spoor in the tar!
Before digital age, unfortunately, maybe a photo somewhere!

did it favour the buck or the cheetah I wonder getting stuck in the tar

No...both species only took one step in the road...they were going fast!

And now onto my second Malelane gate rant ....

We were collected from camp and drove to the gate to collect the rest of the sunset drive participants at the gate . we parked off on the outside lane while waiting for them all to arrive so had front row seats to watch the goings on . again the Gate guard had his backpack on a good 20 minutes before gate closing and would not be bothered to seach any cars . Then a few delivery trucks started arriving .They stopped off in the outside lane got out strolled into the office with their passes ,returned and drove off the guard did not even bother to look into the cabs of the trucks let alone the back load compartment . It was obvious from their demeanor that his was they way it is always done and so there was routinely no security searches done . I was very disappointed .

So after waiting in the stifling heat for about 40 minutes the other guests finally arrived and we left on the drive ...

Our first sighting




This Kudu Doe must have heard us coming a mile away


Crossing a bridge this one was enjoying some cooler shade




And we stopped very close to this ellie on the side of the road browsing on some patches of grass




And we got back to the Cheetahs again the guide was quite excited to see them he told us he had not seen Cheetahs this low down in over 13 years . They had not moved far but still stayed in the shade .









We spent quite some time with them and then left towards Afsaal again ...