Africa Wild

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!

Honey badger Cliffhanger

Badger

Big problem

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...

Great bird pics BT and nice scenes too.

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

Honey Badger

Lisbeth wrote:Honey badger Cliffhanger

Bushcraft wrote:Badger

Big problem

Yeah, BIG problem....

Mel wrote: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.