Sunday, October 19, 2008

GAME DRIVE IN KRUGER NATIONAL GAME PARK

Thought I should share the wonderful day we had yesterday when visiting the Kruger National Game Park. As we jokingly said at the end of the day - it was a day of viewing the big 5, small 5, all 5.  
From the minute we entered the park we were luckly - first one hyena, 
then about 5 hyenas,


-on the next turn off a male lion,



then rhino's, buffallo's, a female lion, a group of 5 lions,


again buffalo's and rhino's, then 6 lions which included about 3 young ones,


the a rare sight of two lions mating, a leopard in a tree and elephant. 






It was really a wonderful experience once again!!  I have included some photos of the day's viewing. Unfortunately the leopard was lying  behind a branch and we could see him clearly with binoculars but the photos are not very good.  But some very good photos of the rest of the animals.

We were also lucky to have some more good viewings at our home.  Early morning 7 giraffes visiting, a very thirsty tortoise and the evening at the "braai" our resident bush baby which we feed bananas every evening.





Today we are very sad having to go back to Gauteng - but still very happy being so fortunate and blessed to again have a stay in paradise.

For more info re the Kruger National Game Park I would suggest the following website :



Greetings from a very warm South Africa.

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2 comments:

Judy said...

That was awesome. I still can't believe you see such wonderful sights. I got excited a couple of weeks ago when we saw some Elk on one of your drives. I am so happy you started blogging.

Joanne Kennedy said...

Oh how lovely. I have ALWAYS wanted to go to Africa and see all the beautiful animals in the wild. What a super memory you have now.

Hugs,
Joanne