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Monday 21 January 2013

Warthogs, So ugly they are cute.

The Warthog......
Yep, they are ugly.
They are very fast, they can get away from a cheetah with how fast they can change directions.

You can see them in all sorts of places.

We had a good close up encounter with these 2, I was out of the car and within 3 metres of them.







All babies love their mum
 
 




 
All these are from only 1km from our house on one of the main roads in town!
 

Wednesday 2 January 2013

2nd Trip to Moremi

We decided to go to Moremi for another look after the recent rains.
It made for an interesting day, the change in the grass and greenery of the trees was huge.
The down side was the number of puddles we had to go through. During the dry season the 4X4's dig out big holes that fill up with the rains. They do not look much but some of them where deep enough that the water came up to the windscreen, and our front number plate came off somewhere in the 90 or so water crossings we made.
But we saw our first hippo's!!!!!!!
They are HUGE.


Female Kudu
 
 

Eagle in flight
 
 


Tree full of eagles.
They where everywhere this time
 
 

Baby Impala
 
 


Baby Giraffes where everywhere.
 
 


Another Baby
 
 

Mother & Baby
 
 

This is a Topi Antelope, we had to look up what is was.
This is not one of the usual places they are found.
 
 

Baby Impala
 
 

One of the many water crossings.
Michelle had a few "seat grabbing" moments
 
 

Male Impala
 
 

See if you can spot the animal in this photo.
What is it?
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Did you spot it?
 
 

You get up close to them.
 
 

Young Giraffe's
 
 

How many giraffe's in this photo?
 
 

They always seem to be checking us out as much as we are them.
 
 




Our first Hippo's
Yay, finally!
 
 


This was just in front of the car
 
 





See the bird landing on the hippo
 
 



They are huge, and their calls are so loud.
 
 


They run so fast for their size.

Elephant skull and bones.
 
 


Another Topi


The car ended up a mess, this shot does not do it justice.
I enjoyed a cold beer while OD (our yard boy, whose name is to hard to pronounce) washed it for us.
Aaahhhh, the perks of Africa.

Well it was another successful day out.
Plus now we have the correct paperwork so we only pay resident rates, so it only costs us 70 Pula to get in. ($8.21)