Re: SO birthday dash Feb 2022
Posted: Sat Jun 04, 2022 7:16 pm
Our first sighting on the S121 was a buff wallowing in the muddy hole .
We continued and as we came around a bend with quite an overgrown bushes suddenly a pair of Impala suddenly jumped out the bushes and ran over the road .We almost hit them and got quite a shock and shortly thereafter the cause of the excitement came slinking out the grass and gave us a look that left no doubt we had interrupted his planned ambush
He walked down the road with us following and marked a few spots then wondered down into a drainage ditch .
We carried on towards camp . A big piggie was in the shade
Deep in the grass close to the camp turnoff we found a car stopped and the reason soon appeared as it moved deeper into the shade
We waited a while but there was no more activity so we carried on to camp.
At camp we had a colorful visitor
After a break and some breakfast we left to drive to Skukuza city for birthday lunch at Selati . Some flowers for SO
And a Fisheagle in the middle of the bush nowhere near water
Close to Skukuza we found a scrum . Not having a choice we joined the queue and took some pics of some lovely Males resting in the shade on the hot day .
The one crossed in front of some cars and joined his brother
We arrived at Selati and had some nice burgers and dessert at a bit of a price , the rugrats had given the money for the meal .It was a good meal
And we shared a cheesecake dessert
We did have an issue paying with the cash the rugrats gave us as no one had any change and we waited about 20 minutes while the waiter and then the manager ran around looking for change .
The obligatory selfie in front of the train
and the train itself .
We left and started to drive back down to Malelane intending to do some loops on the way back ...
We continued and as we came around a bend with quite an overgrown bushes suddenly a pair of Impala suddenly jumped out the bushes and ran over the road .We almost hit them and got quite a shock and shortly thereafter the cause of the excitement came slinking out the grass and gave us a look that left no doubt we had interrupted his planned ambush
He walked down the road with us following and marked a few spots then wondered down into a drainage ditch .
We carried on towards camp . A big piggie was in the shade
Deep in the grass close to the camp turnoff we found a car stopped and the reason soon appeared as it moved deeper into the shade
We waited a while but there was no more activity so we carried on to camp.
At camp we had a colorful visitor
After a break and some breakfast we left to drive to Skukuza city for birthday lunch at Selati . Some flowers for SO
And a Fisheagle in the middle of the bush nowhere near water
Close to Skukuza we found a scrum . Not having a choice we joined the queue and took some pics of some lovely Males resting in the shade on the hot day .
The one crossed in front of some cars and joined his brother
We arrived at Selati and had some nice burgers and dessert at a bit of a price , the rugrats had given the money for the meal .It was a good meal
And we shared a cheesecake dessert
We did have an issue paying with the cash the rugrats gave us as no one had any change and we waited about 20 minutes while the waiter and then the manager ran around looking for change .
The obligatory selfie in front of the train
and the train itself .
We left and started to drive back down to Malelane intending to do some loops on the way back ...