… as much as we do, then the Kruger National Park with its large population of African Elephants really is a must visit destination! This is just a few of the hundreds of elephant photos we took during our visit to the Park in June 2023, with a short video as bonus (and don’t miss the cute little baby trying to drink from the river alongside his mom around the middle of the video!).
Elephant family
Elephant family
Elephant cow in profile
Elephant bulls gathering at a self-dug waterhole in the dry Timbavati River
Elephant hogging Malopenyana Waterhole for himself (photo by Joubert)
Big old Elephant bull
Elephant family (photo by Joubert)
Smiling baby elephant (photo by Joubert)
Bull elephant in a hurry
Elephants (and a buffalo to the side) making their way to the waterhole at Babalala
Elephant warning (photo by Joubert)
Elephant Cow and baby
The Elephant’s Tail
Elephant youngster (photo by Joubert)
Elephants drinking from the Pioneer Dam at Mopani Rest Camp
A huge bull Elephant on his way to the Mooiplaas Waterhole
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🐘 j’aime passionnément
We love them too!
Ongelooflike diere!
Sonder twyfel my gunsteling wesens op hierdie planeet, Aletta.
Beslis 🐘
Amazing shots!
Thanks a lot!
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Amazing footage of the elephants. Your videos are getting better and better. I watched it on YouTube and subscribed. I wanted to comment, but it just didn’t want to go through.
Thanks very much, Ineke. I received your comment just fine – unfortunately our fledgling YT channel was bombarded with a bunch of spam so I had to change the settings to allow all comments to be authorised first until the issue is resolved.
Great, glad it came through. Hope you resolve the issue because those scamers are very clever and cling to their info they have already collected. Sterkte dis maar ‘n stryd om kop bo te hou.
Wow!
An expression we often use when near elephants, Robert!
Gonna have to share this post with my soon to be two year old grand-girlie. She loves elephants!
I am glad to know we have another young conservationist growing up to love Africa’s elephants!
Captivating!
That’s very true, Sue. They’re captivating animals!
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Sjoe, dis lekker om soveel olifant foto’s te sien. Ek dink altyd aan my skool gediggie “stertjie van voor en stertjie van agter” wanneer ek ‘n olifant sien 😉. En ag my jitte … die ou kleintjie het amper die hele gesiggie onder water, dis te kostelik!
Jy kan jou sekerlik indink al die “ooeee” en “aaa” in ons kar terwyl ons hom en sy ma dopgehou het, ne!?
I recently watched a couple of documentaries on elephants and their migrations. Fascinating. They seem so intelligent and they care for their families.
It is hard not to assign familiar human emotions to elephants when you get the chance to watch them interact with each other and their world. I guess that explains why they’re my favourite animals!
I was laughing along with Janet at that little baby elephant trying to baptize itself. So darn cute!
What struck me, though, was the zebra tails at the beginning of the video. It was almost as if they were swinging in time to the music. These videos are wonderful, Dries.
Did you notice how the zebras stand head-to-butt next to each other to swat the flies and midgets from each other’s faces, Lois? The same fly or midge that is responsible for the dark spot moving around my opening shots in the video! Grrr.
Dries–I was so fascinated by the tails, I didn’t even notice how they were standing–or the dark spot on your lens!
When we were in Kenya we saw them up close including a mother and baby. Amazing animals!
We agree wholeheartedly, Anne!
Oh, my, I laughed out loud a number of times at the poor little elephant trying to drink or maybe to baptize itself. Much too cute. When you really look at an elephant as if you’ve never seen one before, they really are fantastic looking animals, fantastic in the sense of fantasy. But we’re so used to seeing them that I think we don’t think anything about it.
They still have us in awe every time we see them, Janet. From those tiny babies to the biggest bulls; they’re all captivating to watch!
So beautiful. I hope I get here one day.
We’d love to show you around our beautiful country, Kelly!
Thanks