All day safari. I will let the pictures speak for themselves.
This big guy was lumbering towards the jeep in the middle of the road and showed no signs of moving to the side. Vusi reved up the engine so the elephant could hear it; their eye sight is very bad so he probably could not see us. At the sound of the engine, he lumbered off to the side of the road, then into the brush.
Saw many other birds but not able to get pictures: Glossy Starling (striking blue bird), Magpie Shrike (black & white with long tail), Dryer bush / Grey go-away-bird = all grey, parrot like with high crest, ,
White rhinos
White vs Black Rhino: White is not white at all, it actually a mispronunciation of the word “wide”in Afrikaans = wide mouth to graze on grass. Black rhino has a narrow pointed mouth with a protruding lip to eat leaves.
More giraffes
Big group of elephants, but check out the huge one in the back. The dark one on the right is fairly big (tusks) yet the one at the back must be 2 or 3 feet taller.
Wart hog crossing the road on its knees ! I can see why they would do it to graze, but this has got to hurt.
I had just commented on the fact that we had not seen any monkeys, when I spotted these guys !Ground-hornbill
Macaque monkeys
And last one we saw at around 4 pm, another leopard and again far away. Left side of the dead tree, brown spot. Another disappointing viewing of a leopard.
We stopped for lunch at one of the "fenced in areas". It was named Skukusa, which means “pushed out” or expelled, which is what happened to the San bushmen who occupied this area before the white people arrived. Very similar story to our North American Natives.
We saw some Amarula trees on the road just outside the hotel, but the fruit was still green (it is yellow when ripe). I think I saw these at the Kirstenbosch Botanical Gardens. Viewing areas
Back at the lodge, I fell asleep before dinner and woke up at 8 pm. Dinner was served indoors tonight, just in case there is another storm. There wasn't.
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