Browns in Kruger October 2018

[Bushcraft]

What? No leopards...you are definitely slipping!!

1 for the day and it's still early in the day, but it's the same 1

[Bushcraft]

Hawkeyes in the middle and Bushpig to the right and jr. rat to the left

Those cheetahs are a lovely sight, so relaxed

The hippoes still on land and a lot

@RP, not only in Kruger the animals are accustomed to cars, in KTP you can almost drive over the lions before they move

You got the rat ID's correct The Jr rat, Albert, is 12, check out the height

I find hippo boring, but plenty were out the water, hence the pic inclusion

[Bushcraft]

Love that gorgeous baby ellie, Bushcraft,

and the hippo in the nest and for sure the cheetahs out of which my favourite is the one where the cheetah is kissing the tree - Amazing

That baby ellie was so cool and very relaxed considering mom was deep in the bush

It was a good cheetah sighting and pure luck

[Bushcraft]

5th Skukuza continued

We arrived back in camp at around 12pm and everybody did their own thing for a few hours.

Albert and I spotted a bush buck cruising around and she wanted to follow so I got dragged along, but the buck gave us the slip and then burst from the bush giving Albert an initial skrik, much to my amusement; however she still got the pic.

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At around 3pm the rats started nagging to visit Mathekenyane as they wanted to take selfies which has become a tradition on our trips, so we loaded up and ducked from camp.

We stopped once on the way to the rock for some ellies at De Laporte, but the turning circle was full of cars and our view had building rubble in it so we moved on. The wind was howling on Mathekenyane but it was still nice to spend 15 minutes checking all-round the rock.

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While on Mathekenyane we heard about dogs on the S23 just past the S113 from other visitors, but they could have moved. I wasn’t keen as I didn’t rate the chances, but we hadn’t seen dogs on the trip yet and Albert loves them so she was starting to develop a pelican, hence to keep the peace I agreed to take a look.

Dunlop the leopard was still parking off near his wartie so we stopped for a few pics, however soon decided to carry on and to rather stop again on the way back.

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The short piece of the S113 didn’t produce much and our slow searching started on the S23.

Around 1km down the road we found an OSV stopped so pulled up next to him and he informed us that the dogs stopped but were now on the move again, however now he couldn’t see them, so Alberts lip dropped again.

We drove slowly along just in front of the OSV and luck again was on our side as the dogs moved into an opening and we picked them up, but it was a mission trying to keep tabs on them in the bush and take pics.

We followed slowly along with a stop/start story until the dogs eventually went too deep in.

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[Bushcraft]

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The clock was ticking so we couldn’t hang around waiting to see if the dogs would reappear, so we turned and headed back for the leopard.

As we approached the leopard tree we were amazed to see that there was only 1 car parked off. The time must have made others nervous.

I wanted a different view of the wartie kill to see if there was any left so we moved past the leopard and pulled in opposite the kill which was now on the lower part of the tree and as luck would have it, minutes later the leopard got up from his spot and decided to have another snack. It was nearly straight into the setting sun so pics were difficult and we had to squint at him but he still locked eyes with us a few times which was cool.

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[Bushcraft]

We couldn’t stay long due to the time, so moved on back towards camp with minutes to spare, however a stroppy ellie nearly ruined our peace.

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It was our last night in Skukuza and the plan was to visit Cattle Baron which got the rats mildly excited and it was great to have a break from braaiing. The food was good and nobody moaned about the lack of shoes, in fact I spotted 2 other barefoot individuals which means we are growing in numbers.

To be continued

[Lisbeth]

Wild dogs and eye locking with a leopard

[Pumbaa]

And now even wild dogs too

and again leopards

Cattle Baron is indeed always great - As you said it is great for a break from baaiing

[Alf]

Even the warthog smiled for the picture

[Richprins]

Now I see why you are so scruffy, BC...the women take such a lot of clothes along you don't have space!

Willl send Cattle Baron an email of complaint.

That leopard didn't look at the cars ONCE while we were there...very frustrating!

Good warthog shot there, I must say!

Glad you got the doggies and selfies sorted!