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| Cape Buffalo
We visited the Kruger National Park with friends from Australia in February. We like the Northern part of the park as it's quite and more removed. We started off at the Letaba camp, I love this camp for the sky bosbokkies that live in the camp but are by now so use to people they boldly come up to camp to investigate new visitors.
I've not seen Tonya in some time so we spend the afternoon strolling around camp catching up on each others lives and general "skinner". Geoff and Neville spend the time in Camp, starting on the Klippies and Coke (soon a firm favourite with Geoff) and was nearly on world peace by the time we got to camp
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| Having a bath! |
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| Letaba Elephant Museum We spend some time at the Elephant Museum in Letaba. It gives fascinating insight into the development of the park, the fight against poaching and facts on these gentle giants. |
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| Splish Splash i'm having a bath! Encountered the Elephant Bath just outside Shingwedzi on the bridge crossing the river. A big male, took some time getting nice and covered in mud, then setting in the water covered almost over he's ears. A first for all of us. |
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| Red Rocks
Shingwedzi is another favourite in the Kruger Park and this time around was a lush and green wonderland after all the rain of the past few weeks and it was quite a surprise finding many dry spots washed away. At Red rocks you normally see thousands of little bee-eaters in the most magnificent colours but all the rain frightened them away. Did see some massive Batteleur Eagles that made up for it.
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| Croc at Crooks Corner The convergence of the Levohu and Limpopo rivers that mark the boundary between South Africa, Mozambique and Zimbabwe is another place we always visit. Partly because it is the only place in the Kruger where you can see Nyala in numbers and partly for the quite and tranquillity of the fever tree forest. Tonya and I started on the G&T's at the breakfast braai (only to ward off mosquito's you know) but forgot to pack glasses. Thankfully Neville, always ingenuous in a crisis, quickly converted our water bottles to gin glasses! |