BluTuna goes West

[BluTuna]

Day 1, Monday June 3, Mata Mata.

Our first full day in the KTP and it was cloudy and drizzling - HUH, that's the last sort of weather I expected in the desert in the winter.

There were a few nice cloudscapes, including one with a rainbow.





A few Ks down the road we found an Ostrich creche.




Just before Veertiende water hole a couple of PCGs (Pale Chanting Goshawks) caught my eye and when I got the bins on them, there was the Honey Badger





Then a car pulled up alongside us and I found out that we had a BIG problem!

[Lisbeth]

Honey badger Cliffhanger

[Bushcraft]

Badger

Big problem

[Mel]

Honey badger

Not fair though - I go twice a year and all I ever got to see was one distant
one and you go what, every 10 years, and get a super HB sighting like that?
Not fair.

And the suspense...

[Dewi]

Great bird pics BT and nice scenes too.

[Sharifa]

WoW!!! BluTuna I just joined you on this TT

We are going to KTP end of July but I am having second thoughts now if the temp is -1 and -6

What was the daytime temperature like? Hope you have time to thaw out

Lovely pearl spotted owl and so glad you found Dakota

Hope we get to see him again

[nan]

Honey Badger

[BluTuna]

Honey badger Cliffhanger

[BluTuna]

Badger

Big problem

Yeah, BIG problem....

[BluTuna]

Honey badger

Not fair though - I go twice a year and all I ever got to see was one distant
one and you go what, every 10 years, and get a super HB sighting like that?
Not fair.

And the suspense...

He was miles away, those are heavily cropped pictures! But HBs are my favourite animal, I don't care how far away they are.

Here's a picture of one that's a bit closer....



That's my leg he's chewing on - taken at Jo'burg Zoo a couple of years ago.