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“Photos from two days spent driving around the Addo Elephant Park near Port Elizabeth, South Africa. (May 21 & 23, 2011)”
From Addo Elephant Park, posted by Arlo Midgett on 6/23/2011 (73 items)
- I normally try to arrange my photos in chronological order, but I put this one up fro…
- Our first sighting was a kudu, but as we pulled up to take a picture of it, two warth…
- Kudu!
- Two Kudu!
- Okay, let me tell you something here about the photos I select for Facebook. I know …
- See previous photo’s comment.
- Black-backed Jackel It’s not often easy to spot animals in the tall grass. It’s even…
- A Black-headed Heron, I think.
- We were thrilled to come across our first elephants!
- The herd had at least 35 head (or tusks, or flapping ears, or whatever you say) in it…
- This little guy started charging the car in front of us, forcing them to reverse quic…
- The elephant herd ("parade"), after it crossed the road
- Oksana posing for photos with her new friends
- The big bull
- Oksana took this well-framed shot It’s the platonic elephant family with kudu on the …
- He’s got a lot of junk in the trunk
- No idea what happened here; looks like a baby elephant fell over!
- Love this shot
- Even the bugs come close in the Addo Elephant Park
- This is how I roll
- Spunky zebra
- Another zebra You know what I realized? Everyone in Africa pronounces them as "…
- Bird nests
- Dung beetles have the right of way on the road of Addo. As a driver, you’re constant…
- Oh, we alighted all right. We alighted HARD!
- Alighted: Case in point.
- The view from the Zuurkop Lookout. (A stitched panorama)
- Meercats! I was quite proud of spotting such small animals from the car.
- …and even prouder to see a mongoose just a could minutes later!
- Black-backed Jackel near sunset
- Elephants in the trees
- Our only lion spotting was from very far away. Okay, so did you read that caption wh…
- Looks like this zebra is lucky to be alive!
- The end of our first day in Addo. We could NOT figure out what meteorological condit…
- Our end-of-first day tally
- Early in the second morning, we took a wrong turn and ended up in the chalet complex….
- Come here, bug!
- Objects in rear view mirror are larger than they appear
- Ostriches
- They crossed right in front of us
- They look so funny while eating
- Zebra in the high grass
- We spent probably 45 minutes parked, just watching the ostriches and zebra herd (sorr…
- Mohawk!
- Animals all around
- Our first — of THREE! — experiences with a bull elephant advancing on our car! Sca…
- We had to back up at least 300 meters — What do we know about elephant behavior? No…
- These two elephants are running. Running right at our car. There’s a good story her…
- Lots of warthog families in Addo. Hard to get a "pretty" photo of such an….
- I don’t think I’ll let green butterflies land on me anymore.
- Giant grasshoppers in the road
- Taking a photo of a collared elephant
- Same elephant, now with less Arlo
- Zeal of Zebra
- Dazzle of Zebra
- I think they’re looking for a reaction after the one mooned us.
- Even more zebras
- Follow the leader
- Another big bull, we saw him all the way from the top of a hill
- If you haven’t seen an elephant walk before, you’d probably be surprised at how light…
- Harvey’s Loop
- We didn’t see any buffalo the first day, but came across a few scattered ones (and on…
- Buffalo blocking the road
- Our hood ornament for a few miles
- Tourists share sighting in the park via magnetic boards in the camps. You can place …
- But you know what? Most boring lion sighting ever. They slept the whole time.
- Chillaxin’ kudu
- An elephant comes walking out of the sunset
- He walked so close we could hear his trunk dragging on the pavement!
- Cool shot, but it felt risky at the time. If he’d decided to come toward our car, I …
- Kudu at sunset
- I used Oksana’s photo for these shots because it was easier to hang low out the car w…
- The last shot of our last day in Addo.
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