Tuesday, 15 May 2018

ARCHIVE South Africa 9

Up at 5.30am for a 6.00am start from Olifants restcamp, heading north.

Blue-eared Starling just catching the first light of the rising sun.

Natal Spurfowl


Young African Bush Elephant

White-fronted Bee-eater

Green Heron

Common Mole Snake, Pseudaspis cana

Nile Crocodile

Letaba River

Sabota Lark

African Bush Elephant

Tawny-flanked Prinia

Rufous-naped Lark

Southern Black Tit


Blue-eared Starling

Cape Dwarf Gecko, Lygodactylus capensiscapensis


Wire-tailed Swallow

Another Sabota Lark

The sky as we crossed the tropic of Capricorn, on route to Tihongonyeni water hole.

The large groups of mammals around the water hole were spectacular.

Common Tsessebe, Damaliscus lunatus lunatus. 



Burchell's Plains Zebra

Large male Elephant.

In addition were Wildebeest and Buffalo.

Male and female Ostrich

Black-winged Stilt

Cape Ground Squirrel, Xerus inauris


Blacksmith Lapwing

Goliath Heron

African Striped Skink, Trachylepsis strata.

Hippopotamus in the Olifants river

Olifants river

Leopard Tortoises

Vervet Monkey

Swainson's Spurfowl

Grey-headed Bush-Shrike

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