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Our 2017 in pictures

Looking back at the places we stayed at during another year of enjoying South Africa’s beautiful wild places.

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Feeling Tiny

This is just a tiny window into the Valley of Desolation, the showpiece of the Camdeboo National Park, which is where we will be visiting for the next two days.

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Care for a Caracal?

This morning here at Mountain Zebra National Park we had the amazing privilege of seeing one of South Africa’s most elusive creatures, the Caracal, out on the hunt.

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Ostrich Love in the Mountains

This morning we were treated to the spectacle of ostrich courtship and mating here at Mountain Zebra National Park.

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We’re at Mountain Zebra National Park now

Evening on the 27th of December 2017 finds us at Mountain Zebra National Park, where the battle to save the Cape Mountain Zebra from the brink of extinction was fought and won.

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Seymore Butts

How many ellie bums can you fit in one picture? 😀

We had the pleasure of following this wide load on our drive through Addo Elephant National Park this morning.

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Christmas Cuties

Wishing all of our friends here at de Wets Wild a blessed Christmas from Addo Elephant National Park!

Today’s sequence shows two baby elephants sharing a Christmas morning nap. The smallest of the two really struggled to get back up when it was time to start moving with the herd again. Certainly one of the cutest things we’ve ever seen in South Africa’s wild places!

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In the land of the giants

We’ve arrived at the Addo Elephant National Park, where there is space for big and small to live side by side…

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What a way to end a day…

A glorious sunset to end our visit to the spectacular Storms River Mouth.

Early tomorrow morning we’ll be heading off to the next destination on our summer itinerary.

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Now this is brave!

While walking along the edge of the Tsitsikamma forests at Storms River Mouth Rest Camp today, Joubert and I came across a very brave Southern Boubou tangling with a deadly venomous Boomslang. The bird succeeded in driving the snake away, apparently none the worse for the encounter.

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