Africa Wild

Alf wrote: ↑Sat Apr 20, 2019 7:39 pm A typical traffic jam in the south

it was very busy down South .

Klipspringer wrote: ↑Sat Apr 20, 2019 8:31 pm Nice drive, and lucky with the congestion as you are saying some are oft "sightings" where really nothing is to see.
Which bird hide is this?

we normally avoid the traffic jams we only got involved in this one as it was the only way to get to Lower Sabie

Lisbeth wrote: ↑Sat Apr 20, 2019 8:35 pm If we are on the S28 it can only be Ntandanyathi and I know that branch

it was

Richprins wrote: ↑Sun Apr 21, 2019 7:51 am Nice sightings and pics, Rog! So nice to see lions actually moving during the day!
My favourite is the heron pic...interesting angle!

Yes we normally only see flat lions in the day and then don't stay long at those sighting .

Flutterby wrote: ↑Sun Apr 21, 2019 10:05 am Don't you love it when luck puts you at the best spot at the right time?!

Yes we were very lucky with this one we normally avoid the traffic scrums at all costs

On the Lower Sabie bridge we found some Hippo's wallowing :



We carried onto Lower Sabie and had breakfast in the day visitors area . Sorry R.P no food picks

After breakfast we stopped in at Sunset dam :

There was very little moving even in the dam was quiet :





Back on the bridge one of the resident giant Kingfishers was waiting patiently :


A crock was warming up on the sand bank



We headed back down towards Crocodile bridge and took the S130 loop :

This young Kudu bull was trying to hide from us .Not sure why it was lying down during the day :


We passed some Warthogs and Zebras at the water hole and took the obligatory picture of "the tree" :


This fellow had finished his mud wallow :


Scratched on a tree



and carried on his way across the road

Love the picture of the tree in the road

Your bird is a pied not giant kingfisher

Lovely pics of the rhino.

You are right, strange to see a kudu lying down and right next to an impala

I also like the hippo pic

There were lots of Marabou storks at Sunset Dam

What classic rhino pics, Rog!


Ja, animals can be a bit listless if it is overcast, especially when there is a breeze?

What was the day-visitors at LS like? Toilets etc?

Nice two-tone rhino.

Alf wrote: ↑Mon Apr 22, 2019 8:09 am Love the picture of the tree in the road

We have quite a collection of pictures of this particular tree .SO has also painted it quite well ...

Lisbeth wrote: ↑Mon Apr 22, 2019 9:04 am Your bird is a pied not giant kingfisher
Lovely pics of the rhino.
You are right, strange to see a kudu lying down and right next to an impala
I also like the hippo pic
There were lots of Marabou storks at Sunset Dam

Lisbeth .Birds get me

Richprins wrote: ↑Mon Apr 22, 2019 9:08 am What classic rhino pics, Rog!
Ja, animals can be a bit listless if it is overcast, especially when there is a breeze?
What was the day-visitors at LS like? Toilets etc?

Day visitors at LS was ok -very quiet while we were there but it was a little overgrown when we were there . we have found the toilets at LS not all too great of late .I think its a case of too many users .

Flutterby wrote: ↑Mon Apr 22, 2019 10:31 am Nice two-tone rhino.

Flutts

Further along we found a lone Elli


We stopped at Gezantombi Dam there was not much water -a small puddle .Some Saddle-bills were about and a large herd of Impalas with plenty of youngsters :



Suddenly the youngsters all started running ....what was happening then we realized that it was still school time and the older Impalas were teaching the youngsters how to run and jump .We spent a while just watching their PE classes







The last animals we saw before checking out the gate were these Gnu's



And then as we drove down the road approaching the Stop street by the bridge ..... spots in the bushes oh look there is a cheetah




A bit hard to get a decent picture but there was soon there a traffic jam in and out the park ....we decide to make our way back to Marloth

In Marloth we stopped in at the local communal lake next door to the house and noticed the active log floating around ...

The local Hornbill was waiting for us to put out some fruit



The rugrats played with some fire color packets that night

Just loving it

Cheetah

Nice cheetah sighting to end the day. What are fire colour packets?