OUR LAST VISIT TO KRUGER NATIONAL PARK
WE SPENT A WEEK AT KRUGER LODGE JUST OUTSIDE THE KRUGER PARK.
THESE ARE ALL THE PHOTOS I TOOK ON OUR DAILY TRIPS INTO THE KRUGER PARK.
THIS IS DAY1
This is just after the entrance to Kruger Lodge next to the golf course.
There are quite a lot of Impala within their grounds.
Taken next to our chalet
I have kept the photos in the same sequence as they were taken.
First sighting after Kruger Gate.
Klipspringers
Sable Antelope
A herd of Elephants crossing the road.
Our first Cheetah, just look how well his camouflage works.
Really a beautiful animal.
Here I zoomed in close
Our first Rhino.
Just lazing around in the warm sun.
THIS WAS MY LAST PHOTOGRAPH ON DAY 1
I WILL FOLLOW ON WITH DAY 2 TO-MORROW
ALL PHOTOGRAPHS ARE MY PROPERTY.
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I was last there in 1965. While I slept in a rondavel st Skukuza I was wakened by a large baboon which had hold of the bars on the window above my head and was rattling it like he would tear it off.
I sat up and looked through the mosquito mesh barrier on the window frame in terror. I was the youngest member of the primary school tour.
It is probably worthwhile mentioning to any not familiar with African wildlife that one should visit in a circumspect frame of mind.
This is what an African Elephant might do to your vehicle if you annoy it. I hope there was no one in it at the time.
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Thank you for your good advice ruthofisrael, I will try to learn from it.
My worst experience with Baboons was in 1973, my wife and I were traveling to Cape Town from Johannesburg by car and pulling a caravan. When we reached du Toit's Kloof (This was of course in the days before the tunnel was built. ) we decided to pull over and have lunch in the caravan. We pulled off the road and my wife told me to lay down and rest while she maked us a sandwich and tea. As you entered the caravan, it had a double bed on the left next to the door and the kitchen area was on the right. I lay smoking a cigarette until my wife said she had our sandwiches ready.I got up from the bed and put out the cigarette in an ashtray which was on the bed with my back to the door. While I was doing this I heard my wife in a very frightened voice say " Oh my God".I turned around very fast to see what was wrong and in turning I saw a HUGE Baboon standing in the caravan right next to me and in my turn I gave this huge baboon a backhand punch. As I was hitting him I realized that I was most likely making a grave mistake but the punch was already on its way and I could not stop it. Lucky for us both the baboon fell out the door of the caravan and landed on the ground on his back. I pulled the door closed as his body hit the door trying to get back into the caravan which would have been a catastrophe, his two front incisor teeth were at least 55mm long which would have caused a lot of damage. We waited quite a while before he cooled off, then threw out a banana and then waited until he moved on before we left the caravan to continue our journey.
@tigerfish...Did you change your underpants after that? I know I would have had to...
Lets just say I had more clothes in the wash than normal.
WOW @tigerfish, I forget how great it is to visit Kruger. I remember my first trip as a 5 year old with my grandparents. In those days all hot water was generated by boilers and there was always a communal braai area (cooking area) with fires ... you even had to get your coffee boiled water there!
Yes It was actually much nicer in the old days, there was much more communication between visitors, like in the ablution block, one would hear all the day's stories about who saw what and all the close encounter experienced during the day. It was quite a lot of fun listening to other peoples stories.
Now days people keep more to themselves and the communal braais are a thing of the past.
My apologies. @ruthofisrael is my wife and I posted the baboon incident as her iso @graviton by mistake.
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Thank you I appreciate your comments and the baboon story happens all the time, once in Botswana they raided our camp, actually opened our gas box freezer and sat as a group eating its contents, but quickly dispersed on our arrival. At another time also in Botswana our neighbor campers wife was attacked by a male baboon, the baboon saw her husband leaving the camp,on his way to the toilets and then the baboon went straight into their camp trying to get food of some sort, the campers wife tried to stop him but baboons are not afraid of a women and stand their ground. We heard the woman shouting and rushed to help. As soon as the baboon saw me approaching, he made off with his loot.