It was wet, windy and rather cool here at Ithala today, and yet, we have no reason to complain! We had some very memorable sightings again, including an encounter with Ithala’s elusive elephants this afternoon.
We arrived at Ithala Game Reserve today, and we are thrilled to be back!
Yesterday evening we were treated to a spectacular sunset at Chelmsford Nature Reserve
Today marks the start of our long-awaited, epic summer holidays in the bush, and we’re kicking it off with a visit to the lovely Chelmsford Nature Reserve. We’d have loved to post a photo from here for you this evening, but unfortunately the network connection’s just not good enough 😦
Seems we are able to post to our facebook page though 🙂
Edit 15 December 2014: At last I could add the photo I wanted to 2 days ago 😀
There’s the right way, and then there’s the quick way 😉
Downhill at the St. Lucia Crocodile Centre, in the iSimangaliso Wetland Park
Mind your step at the Bourke’s Luck Potholes, in the Blyde River Canyon Nature Reserve
“Descent” is the theme for this week’s WordPress Photo Challenge
Dew droplets on a spiderweb at Chelmsford Nature Reserve turning the world upside-down…
“Refraction” is this week’s WordPress photo challenge theme
The African Wild Dog (Lycaon pictus, also known as the Cape Hunting Dog or Painted Wolf) must be the African mammal with the most stamina – they’ll easily cover distances of over 40km in a day, trotting along at speeds of around 10km/h, and when hunting can maintain speeds of 48km/h for distances of up to 5km (though they seldom need to chase prey that far before taking down their quarry). At full speed, they’ll easily reach 64km/h!
We witnessed these wild dogs chasing after a herd of impala in the Hluhluwe-Imfolozi Park during a visit in 2008.
“Endurance” is the theme for this week’s WordPress Photo Challenge. Information from “The Behavior Guide to African Mammals”, by Richard Despard Estes.
Two photos, two photographers, telling the same story from different angles…
My photo, of Joubert eyeing the elephant through the back window of our vehicle
Joubert’s photo of the same elephant 🙂
“Dialogue“
Safely (well, relatively) packed into their tin cans, humans can explore the wild places of South Africa to their hearts content…
“Containers” is the theme for this week’s WordPress Photo Challenge
Sometimes, you’re forced to get out of the car in big-five territory, for a little extra (unplanned) adventure, like I had to here in the Hluhluwe-Imfolozi Park 😀
“Extra, Extra” is the theme for this week’s WordPress photo challenge
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