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- 8 February 2015
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Day 39 Yellow-billed Stork At The Sunset Dam
The dam had quite a few of these Yellow-billed Storks visiting. So tall and stately and quite beautiful with their pink feathers, yellow beak and red face. On a later visit to the dam we saw them catching fish.
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- 7 February 2015
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Day 38 Rainbow Skink
A Rainbow Skink we met one day, so pretty with that electric blue tail.
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- 6 February 2015
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Day 37 Crocodile And His Disguise
Mr. Crocodile has many disguises and you may spend quite a while in a place and not ever notice him at all. At other times you may only see him when he moves. They remind me of prehistoric creatures, quite creepy and eerie.
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- 5 February 2015
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Day 36 Lilac-breasted Roller
The lilac-breasted Roller must be one of the most colourful birds in the Kruger National Park, strangely enough we didn’t see to many of them on this trip. The colours when flying are simply stunning.
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- 4 February 2015
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Day 35 Butterflies Everywhere You Look
The air was filled with these winged beauties, such an array of colours, sizes and patterns. We saw them in the trees, on flowers, alongside puddles of water and even on dung heaps. So very pretty.
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- 3 February 2015
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Day 34 First Elephant Sighting Of Our Trip
The first of many sightings we had of elephant on this trip to Kruger. He was so enjoying those tasty leaves and it looked as though nothing in the world could bother him.
Later in the trip we were almost rammed by an elephant that charged out at us from behind a bush whilst at the same time, trumpeting so loudly. What an adrenaline rush … not something I would like to repeat in a hurry.
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- 2 February 2015
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Day 33 Waterbuck In The Grass
Waterbuck are such gracious animals always in the grasses and reeds and stay close to water. They have a rough, shaggy, grey coat with a white ring around their rump. They use the water to escape from the predators.
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- 1 February 2015
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Day 32 Purple Seedpods On A Tree
Many of the trees in Kruger have seedpods of varying sizes shapes and colours, I particularly like the shape and colour of these but I do not know the name of the tree, please let me know if you can identify it for me.
Thank you Alexander Dowding for the identity, it is the purple seedpod of the Lowveld Cluster Leaf (Terminalia prunioides).
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- 31 January 2015
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Day 31 Battle Of The Smallest Creatures
We came across this female boomslang attacking a chameleon. The chameleon put up such a valiant fight and at one stage actually bit the boomslang on the head. The chameleon eventually chased the snake off but sad to say the snake is venomous and the poor chameleon will not survive.
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- 30 January 2015
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Day 30 First day in Kruger National Park
Our first day in Kruger National Park and this is the gorgeous view of the Sabie River.