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Hi Larissa,
Nice Doggies

page has turned...

now for the pics of the rest of day 5...

daggababy...


daggaboy...


tiny ellie... & kie....

and now... for the visitors....
1. Mr Camp-wrecker & kie
but thanx to the forum, I knew to take baboon proof storage crates... our neighbours got raided, and robbed of ALL their food...



2. a Welcome sight at the otherwise empty waterhole in front of our tent



3. Mr. Genet, wanting to grab a quick snack of our deck




to be continued...

visitors continued...

4. Mr Spotty, ever so patiently waiting to see if we will break the rules...



5. and last but certainly not least ... Mr Badger, Honey Badger.
I only caught one of the four visiting us regularly....

Hell who needs to drive around you have the whole animal kingdom visiting you on your front porch STUNNING!!!!

Just caught up - WOW - the rhino was a beauty! The daggababy the little ellie
the big elephant and the visitors around your tent -
Oh and I nearly forgot the painted doggies

LarissaVW, thank you for sharing this stunning TR and all photos. Ellies etc.

The Honey Badger great

When you sit and watch those little Genets, they look so tame. Cute little critters

Gorgeous daggababy

and great doggie and night visitors luck you had

Thanks Larissa

Lucky you. We will be there in September and I hope we are half as lucky as you!! 1/2 doggies, 1/2 honey badger!!!

The night visitors at Tamboti are definitely a highlight!!

The night visitors at Tamboti are definitely a highlight!!

Great sighting of the doggies well captured .
The little dagga baby is really cute, followed by baby ellies .
Also great night visitor's .
Thanks for sharing .

Awesome Wild Dog sighting LarissaVW!

The Buff baby and Ellie babies are adorable! And a lovely Civet and HB visiting! The Hyena looks very young! Beautiful!

Day 6

Yet another "kill and feeding".... although not the kill expected by most... but a kill nonetheless!
Off course I was too late picking up my camera and snapping away to get the actual kill on film, but we did witness the great swoop down to the tar road, the clutching at some prey on the road, and then the triumphant feeding in the tree next to the road! All was very spectacular to watch!




well, we thought it to be spectacular.....

Came across this guy, and wondered what happened....



and then... we actually got chased by this, extremely agitated buff! He came storming onto the road, obviously very rattled, and running away from something.

He turned, looked at us, by now having come to a stop, and started chasing us back! it was unbelievable!

After about 200m, he lost interest, went back to where he came out of the veld, and stared intently into the bush.... something scared him, and we waited a while, but nothing came chasing after him!
We were still sitting there, watching him, together with a couple of other cars, when a SanParks traffic official couldn't wait any longer. She just drove right up to our angry daggaboy, chased him into the bush, and drove of waving and laughing....
that was that then.....

much later, someone else was hiding under a tree from the heat....