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“Photos from a private 4D/3N tour of the Kruger National Park with African Big 5 Safaris from May 29 to June 1, 2011.”
From Kruger National Park, posted by Arlo Midgett on 6/24/2011 (132 items)
- Our GPS route through the Kruger National Park
- Scary!
- The entrance to the park — at least the gate we came through
- Oksana by our trusty safari vehicle
- Impala
- The first sighting of the tour, an impala!
- Yikes!
- Working on my journal in camp. I did this for perhaps 5 minutes total throughout the …
- Our first rhino sighting
- One of my favorite photos of the safari
- You can tell an impala by the black "M" on their butts. "The McDonald’…
- Our first giraffe. Oksana was SO THRILLED!
- Notice the birds?
- Dinner after sunset
- Retief at the braai
- Hyena just beyond the camp fence
- I took this photo with the camera lens between chain links. He was staring right at …
- Boerewors!
- Dinner is served!
- Those two green eyes are owned by a genet. It was totally watching me.
- Morning on the veldt
- Kudu in the shade
- Hornbill
- Yellow Horn-bill It’s Zazu from the Lion King!
- I forget the name of this bird. Buchell’s somethingorother?
- This hyena was a treat — walked right up to the car…
- …looked around…
- …sniffed the air, and walked off into the bush.
- Stealth giraffe!
- Are you guys STILL there?
- We think he was playing hide and seek with us.
- Oksana posing with her fav animal
- Just a couple turtles, I mean "Terrapins," sunning themselves by the side o…
- One very pregnant zebra!
- Lilac-breasted Roller… or was it Lavender-breasted…?
- Setting up for brunch
- Our first wildebeest sighting
- Elephants at the watering hole
- Maybe if I hide behind these branches, they won’t focus on me.
- Warthogs
- Impalas
- Oxpecker going to town
- Amazing how trusting the impala was!
- Guinea fowl. "What eats them?" "Everything."
- Elephant scratching post
- Must have remembered a joke he heard once.
- I love the golden hour
- Cheetah sighting!
- He was watching a herd of impalas
- When he laid down, he was invisible!
- Getting up to leave
- Did I mention I’m a cat person?
- Moving through the grass
- Posing by the roadside
- With his brother!
- Checking us out
- Off into the sunset
- Rhinos blocked our path for over 9 minutes
- Roadblock!
- So cool, watching them eat up close
- Cooked to perfection!
- Just looking at this photo makes me hungry!
- "A hippo out of water! That’s a very good start to the day!"
- Sunrise in Kruger National Park
- Another roller
- Sup. I’m a giraffe
- Two young males sparring…with a ref!
- The elusive two-headed giraffe!
- The smallest giraffe we ever saw.
- Retief didn’t actually have anything to say about this giraffe.
- How I spent my four days in Kruger…
- A saddle-billed crane
- Vervet monkey eating a bug
- These monkeys aren’t really using walkie-talkies, but I like to think they are.
- Zebra closeup
- Shoulder nibbles
- Are mohawks still in?
- One of the only times we were allowed to leave our vehicle was with this park ranger.
- Oksana and the Crocodile river. Wonder why they call it that?
- Sausage tree!
- Mongoose spotted from the car!
- Duke, one of the oldest tuskers in the park!
- Another old tusker. Retief speculates around 40 years old
- Kind of looks like he’s rocketing backwards, doesn’t it?
- Someone needs a shave
- Glossy starling. Very pretty bird.
- Caught a fun moment during the interview!
- A troop of baboons marching into one of the camps. No one bothers stopping them.
- Big croc in one of the damed lakes
- Hippos. Many, many hippos (look at the far shore)
- Baboons. We didn’t see any the first two days, but then couldn’t get away from them …
- Puff adder. Do not like after Retief’s story about being bit!
- Cheetah rolling over
- Oksana spotted this cheetah when we were moving about 40kph
- Cheetah in sunset lighting
- Moving away from us
- Marking his territory
- I think this is my favorite photo from the entire safari
- Do I pee on this side of the tree? I forget.
- Wonderful sunlight on his side
- There’s our leopard! There’s our leopard!
- Early morning of the fourth, and last, day
- Lions hidden in the grass. Can you see them? There’s two!
- Female
- This male lion started roaring right there in front of us. If you haven’t seen our v…
- I had time to play with Oksana’s point-and-shoot and Marcel’s binoculars.
- I always think of armored cars when I see them from the side
- Rhino. He was eventually eating grass within the shadow of the car you see there.
- What a strange animal. I mean, really.
- They look so streamlined…
- …until you see their giant lips.
- What are you lookin’ at?
- Oksana and a rhino; wasn’t quite quick enough to get him when he was almost against t…
- Giraffes from afar
- We saw far more giraffes that we were expecting
- There were about 15 in this group
- A family of dwarf mongoose were running around the camp during the day
- Hippo feeding on the opposite shore from camp
- Water bucks coming down to drink… very cautiously.
- A little alpha male action
- Kudu walking back the road
- I love how baby baboons travel!
- Baboons in the grass.
- Piggyback!
- Baboon family
- Retief thought this baboon was so young, it must have been born this very morning.
- Mom and baby
- I didn’t realize baboons were such good climbers
- Streeeeeetch!
- Moving off
- Little cowboy
- Our last photo with African Big 5 Safaris
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