Satara Summer – Day 19 (2019/12/23)

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We’re still enjoying a wonderful time here at Satara in the Kruger National Park, and still finding more to marvel at every day!

Female Lesser Masked Weaver
Summer blooms
Red-billed Buffalo Weaver
Cardinal Woodpecker
Scarlet Tip
Summer blooms
Chinspot Batis
Dung Beetle
Mating Purple Tips
Common Diadem
Tree Agama
Plains Zebras
Plains Zebras
Giraffes crossing the road
Elephant tussle
Summer blooms
Elephants at Welverdiend waterhole
Leopard Tortoise
Swainson’s Spurfowl
Blue Wildebeest
Grey Duiker
Tree Creeper Scorpion
Venomous Scorpion – note tiny pincers compared to stinger

13 thoughts on “Satara Summer – Day 19 (2019/12/23)”

  1. Playamart - Zeebra Designs

    Do the photographers in the family have about 5,000 images each to sort and name and save as smaller images?!!!! You were so dedicated to share your journey with us, and with each post I smiled – as long ago I lived near a small community called, ‘Satartia’ – close enough in spelling to see that Satara’ in your posts and feel as if there was news from home. Satartia was the Indian world for ‘Pumpkin Patch’ – I was told…

    Happy New Year to you and your beautiful family – and may we all find ways to dote on the earth and her creatures… You’re doing your part! Thank you!

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    1. de Wets Wild Post author

      You’re as kind as always, Lisa – thank you! We’re glad you could follow along on our visit to Satara, which apparently is a corruption of an Indian word meaning “seventeen”. Before the Kruger Park was proclaimed, this stretch of land was being divided into farms by an English surveyor and his Indian assistant, and Satara was the seventeenth farm (or so the story goes).

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