ARCHIVE South Africa 8

Flew north, from the relatively cool Cape to a sweltering Phalaborwa, via Johannesburg. Landing was just how I had always imagined Africa to be with Mopane scrub woodland, orange sandy-soil and termite mounds in the airport grounds.

Laughing Dove

Violet-backed Starling. This summer migrant would be leaving the Kruger and migrating north.

An exciting sign that greets you on entry the Kruger at the Phalaborwa Gate

My first African Fish Eagle.

Cape Buffalo at the Nhlanganini Dam

Cape Buffalo with Yellow-billed Oxpeckers.

Impala

African Elephant

Warthog

Termite mound

Wooly-necked Stork on the Nhlanganini River

Elipsen Waterbuck

Brown-headed Parrot in Letaba rest camp

Burchell's Zebra

Cape or South African Giraffe.

Nile Crocodile on the Letaba River

Chacma Baboons

Views of the Oliphants River from the rest camp of the same name.

Stick insect

Dusk at Oliphants rest camp. The sky was full of bats and a Sooty Falcon was hawking for insects.