2 PESO's from yesterday
Our Kruger Park Season Ticket (Wild Card) expired yesterday. No point in
renewing it until about August because the bush is so thick after the
considerable summer rains making game viewing hopeless. We decided to
finish off with breakfast at Letaba Camp. The image of the Letaba River
from the stoep shows just how quickly last week's floodwaters have
disappeared. Lucky Indian Ocean! Then scroll L for a shot of a herd of
Ellies sauntering down the road. Why go bundu bashing when there is a
perfectly good tarred road available? We had to reverse for about 500m
before they turned off down a side track & disappeared into the greenery.
Letaba River back to a trickle after only a week. | Alan Cole | Flickr
https://www.flickr.com/photos/wisselstroom/50955524661/in/datetaken-public/
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Alan C
Wonderful shot of the elephants!
On 18 Feb 2021, at 09:37, Alan C cole@lantic.net wrote:
Our Kruger Park Season Ticket (Wild Card) expired yesterday. No point in renewing it until about August because the bush is so thick after the considerable summer rains making game viewing hopeless. We decided to finish off with breakfast at Letaba Camp. The image of the Letaba River from the stoep shows just how quickly last week's floodwaters have disappeared. Lucky Indian Ocean! Then scroll L for a shot of a herd of Ellies sauntering down the road. Why go bundu bashing when there is a perfectly good tarred road available? We had to reverse for about 500m before they turned off down a side track & disappeared into the greenery.
Letaba River back to a trickle after only a week. | Alan Cole | Flickr https://www.flickr.com/photos/wisselstroom/50955524661/in/datetaken-public/
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Alan C
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Impressive picture of the elephants! Looks rather scary getting so close
to them.
Henk
Op 2021-02-18 om 10:37 schreef Alan C:
Our Kruger Park Season Ticket (Wild Card) expired yesterday. No point
in renewing it until about August because the bush is so thick after
the considerable summer rains making game viewing hopeless. We decided
to finish off with breakfast at Letaba Camp. The image of the Letaba
River from the stoep shows just how quickly last week's floodwaters
have disappeared. Lucky Indian Ocean! Then scroll L for a shot of a
herd of Ellies sauntering down the road. Why go bundu bashing when
there is a perfectly good tarred road available? We had to reverse for
about 500m before they turned off down a side track & disappeared into
the greenery.
Letaba River back to a trickle after only a week. | Alan Cole | Flickr
https://www.flickr.com/photos/wisselstroom/50955524661/in/datetaken-public/
K & HD 55-300
Alan C
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Nice elephant image...I would have backed up, too, if I'd seen them
coming at me. I took a look at your week ago image of the Letaba
River, too. Quite a difference in flow. And...I now know the
definition of stoep and bundu - two words that weren't in my glossary. 😁
-p
On 2/18/2021 3:37 AM, Alan C wrote:
Our Kruger Park Season Ticket (Wild Card) expired yesterday. No point
in renewing it until about August because the bush is so thick after
the considerable summer rains making game viewing hopeless. We decided
to finish off with breakfast at Letaba Camp. The image of the Letaba
River from the stoep shows just how quickly last week's floodwaters
have disappeared. Lucky Indian Ocean! Then scroll L for a shot of a
herd of Ellies sauntering down the road. Why go bundu bashing when
there is a perfectly good tarred road available? We had to reverse for
about 500m before they turned off down a side track & disappeared into
the greenery.
Letaba River back to a trickle after only a week. | Alan Cole | Flickr
https://www.flickr.com/photos/wisselstroom/50955524661/in/datetaken-public/
K & HD 55-300
Alan C
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Sooner or later "different" scares people.
Thanks, Paul, Henk, Bob & anyone else who looked.
The major rivers have sand beds several metres deep so the water
continues to flow out of sight through the sand. Exposed "pools" are
actually places where the sand is less deep. Elephants excavate the sand
in times of drought to get access to water. The authorities also help
with heavy earth moving equipment when considered necessary.
Kruger publishes guidelines about how to behave when near elephants.
Basically keep out of their way & don't try anything stupid. Normal
herds are fairly tolerant of cars but bulls in musth see them as
competitors & can become very agressive. I have seen rolled cars &
smashed caravans.
South African English has adopted several words from Afrikaans & Black
languages. An international one I can think of is "trek".
Alan C
On 18-Feb-21 06:56 PM, Paul Sorenson wrote:
Nice elephant image...I would have backed up, too, if I'd seen them
coming at me. I took a look at your week ago image of the Letaba
River, too. Quite a difference in flow. And...I now know the
definition of stoep and bundu - two words that weren't in my
glossary. 😁
you wrapped up before I could find the elephants :-) finally found them
by backing up a frame by left arrowing... after seeing all the comments
on them..
yes, wow , impressive! .. but I alos found from right arrowing a lot
several lovely bird photos I had not seen before.. in addition to the
recen Heron silhouette.. but I don't know how to ID them.. they don't
have titles or numbers that I can see..
Three large long legged birds sipping water stood out.. one smaller A
couple and a chick? storks?
also a lonely bird with big eye standing alone on the shore.. who is that?
Great shot of two heron's on opposite shores of a stream
likewise that hyenna starying you down.. hillarious!
Don't know how I missed them -- maybe some disconnect with flicker and
my browser.. or just that they were psoted when I wasn't reading the list.
ann
On 2/18/2021 11:09 PM, Alan C wrote:
Thanks, Paul, Henk, Bob & anyone else who looked.
The major rivers have sand beds several metres deep so the water
continues to flow out of sight through the sand. Exposed "pools" are
actually places where the sand is less deep. Elephants excavate the
sand in times of drought to get access to water. The authorities also
help with heavy earth moving equipment when considered necessary.
Kruger publishes guidelines about how to behave when near elephants.
Basically keep out of their way & don't try anything stupid. Normal
herds are fairly tolerant of cars but bulls in musth see them as
competitors & can become very agressive. I have seen rolled cars &
smashed caravans.
South African English has adopted several words from Afrikaans & Black
languages. An international one I can think of is "trek".
Alan C
On 18-Feb-21 06:56 PM, Paul Sorenson wrote:
Nice elephant image...I would have backed up, too, if I'd seen them
coming at me. I took a look at your week ago image of the Letaba
River, too. Quite a difference in flow. And...I now know the
definition of stoep and bundu - two words that weren't in my
glossary. 😁
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