Kruger Memories

• The delight and wonder on the faces of the five blind and five deaf children on their first visit to Kruger.

Spot the snake!

• The Black Mamba crossing the road in front of us and then climbing and moving around a couple of small Mopani’s close to the road.

• An African Rock Python coiled in an untidy heap below the road next to the Sabie River.

• The snore of an exhausted lioness during a break in mating.

• A fleeting glimpse of the Sable Antelope’s scimitar horns near Pretoriuskop Rest Camp.

• Multiple sightings of the “rare” tsessebe over a 36 hour period near Mopani Rest Camp.

• Eighty buffalo silhouetted against the setting sun, kicking up the dust in their run down to the waterhole.

• The huge bull elephant rolling like a kid in the mud at the edge of Nsime Dam.

• The antics of a baboon troop on the banks of the Olifants River.

• A Ground Hornbill feasting on a tortoise, tossing it into the air as it tries to get it’s beak into the head and leg openings.

• The baby elephants rolling over and over in the shallows of the waterhole.

• The troop of Banded Mongoose scampering down to drink at the waterhole with the baboons and two old bull elephants. 

•  The majestic “King of the Jungle” surveying his domain in the setting sun.

• A massive crocodile chasing fish in the shallows, with the young Fish Eagle hovering above waiting for a chance to grab the fish as it desperately leaps out of the water.

• The wonderful people from all over the world that have shared with me all these experiences over the last 3 months.