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We’ll be spending only the one day at Midmar Dam Nature Reserve on this trip. But that’s not because the Natal Midlands area is not exceedingly beautiful!
There, now we are all caught up with our daily trip updates – please page back for the delayed updates from Hluhluwe-Imfolozi Park.
We spent a considerable amount of time on our last full day at Hluhluwe-Imfolozi Park stuck behind wide and heavy loads… The Park’s elephant population is obviously booming!
What an awesome experience, witnessing one of Hluhluwe-Imfolozi’s wild dog packs hunt and kill! We’ll share more photos in an upcoming post.
We were astounded by the prolific tree-climbing skills of Imfolozi’s lions, and how well such big cats can camouflage themselves in the tops of even rather small trees.
The sunrise over Hluhluwe-Imfolozi Park on Christmas morning was particularly beautiful 😀
We hope all our friends here at de Wets Wild had a lovely Christmas Day.
Today we moved “camp” again, to Mpila in the Hluhluwe-Imfolozi Park, our country’s oldest reserve and one of our firm favourites. This little white rhinoceros seemed particularly pleased that Christmas eve has finally arrived!
We also would like to wish all our friends here at de Wets Wild a blessed and merry Christmas!
An osprey takes flight over the Western Shores of Lake St. Lucia
Inclement weather put an early end to our plans to walk the Ligwalagwala Trail in St. Lucia this morning. We were as disappointed as this vervet monkey mother and her baby seemed to be.
We moved base again today, this time to Chane Cheese Farm, from where we’ll be exploring the southern reaches of Lake St. Lucia and the iSimangaliso Wetlands Park. The farm is surrounded by bluegum plantations, huge swathes of which have already been removed and rehabilitated after the proclamation of iSimangaliso as a World Heritage Site in order to restore a natural ecological balance to this diverse area.
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