Holiday pics from South Africa

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• Jun 28, 2004

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Ok,

here are the umfolozi game reserve pics, later than promised....

setting the scene, some rutting mpala bucks......

 

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Some wild boar (or pigs as the South African's call them)

 

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Baboons checking us out wherever we went!! Cheeky beggers!!

 

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Blue wildebeast cooling down in the shade.....

 

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Off on our 3 hour walk at 7am......some weaver bird nests along the way....

 

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At one point our ranger was tracking lions in a dried up river bed!!! Apparantly they were very fresh prints of a male
Don't worry, he had a big gun!
He did say that if we were tracking them and they'd just been here,
then they were probably already watching us!!
How reasuring!!

 

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For all the arachnophobes (sure that's not how you spell it!) this was a beautiful large spider we almost walked into about the length of your hand!

 

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Luckily we didn't almost walk into this beast or we would've been in trouble!!

 

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he decided to ignore us and walk across the track instead!!

 

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Wow fabulous pics!!!

 

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and last but by no means least, the tallest animals in the bush....

 

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then the happy couple brought out the youngster when they decided we were no threat....

 

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Wow fabulous pics!!!

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cheers, no treefrogs from what I saw though!

 

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Water hole where we waited forever for no animals to show up!! To be fair this reserve is over 100,000 sq km so it is quite lucky to see some of the rarer animals like wild dogs and black rhino that we saw.....to elusive to get pics though!!

 

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the gorgeous lodge where we stayed, overlooking a riverbed....

 

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