Monday, September 12, 2016

Lower Sabie Camp, Kruger National Park, South Africa

The morning started off with lions.

Just a mile or so from camp was a lion laying on a rock down by the river. Then, another mile brought this ( I took this by holding my camera out the window and pushing the shutter):

It was 3 lions walking down the road with a parade of cars following. The front cars woudn't pass, so we were stuck for about 45 minutes moving at a walking pace and no opportunity for a good photograph.

Then, they moved into the trees and were lost to view.

Later in the morning, I went to an artifical waterhole to see what woud appear. Back in the 1960's the park made many of these where they drill a well, put in a pump run by a windmill (some have been converted to solar power) and a large concrete tank to hold the water. Then they add a trough for the animals to drink from. Lately, they have decided that maybe that wasn't a good idea as they are experiencing environmental problems around many of them, so they are slowly removing them. This one, however, was still operating.

When I got there, there were hyenas:

When they left, zebras, wildebeast, warthogs and buffalo came in:

Later, I found a nice scene with an elephant at a natural waterhole: