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Hallo P and G,

Absolutely love the baby impies and of course the circle assess - they always make nice pics

Your "reminder" of the Leopard who crossed the road, is something to remind you later of the Leppie again

Wonderful pics and super sightings.

Leppie not standing still for ....but your memory pic will live on forever.

Scenery pic is awesome.....sigh

Mopani is a great camp and with view just superb....sure you will have an amazing stay in September.

Great start to another awesome day in Kruger .
Me and Hilda are so use to those 3 second leppies, that I totally believe you that the leppie was indeed there . Luckily the brain put these sightings in a folder for ever .
Must have been a stunning sight to see so many geese gathered in one place .
Thanks for sharing .

What a long, but fruitful drive Porridge! Awesome sightings, and those two Kudu bulls are beautiful!

After scanning the picture thoroughly, I was able to see the Leopard! He is looking in your direction behind the long grass!

Awesome picture of the Egyptian Geese!

Hi Porridge,

just caught up and first Congratulations and all the best

What a wonderful start to you trip with already so many thrilling sightings Pity about the leopard

Love your birdies and for sure the many Egyptian goose - Really an amazing sighting

So I know Aat is a famous forumites, but us Yanks were too low to even mention huh? I see how it goes. We may be crashing your party in September.

Looks like a great day so far. Can't wait to see the birthday party pics!

Daron

Things are definitely warming up, Porridge. Great to see leopard, always!

Great photo’s Porridge. The spider’s nest almost looks like a map of Africa to me . Kruger is indeed gorgeous country

LQ - I was amazed at how many there were too. Unbelievable

Philip1 - I've seen those, Philip, miles and miles of spiderwebs alongside the road. Spectacular

VVV - circle asses I've heard them called a lot of things, but never that

Trrp-trrtjie - Thx Trr So looking forward to the next trip, and it's only January

barryels - Very true, barry. The mind is very obliging in that way.

hilda - That's great, hilda, and there I thought i'd missed the spotted kitty

Pumbaa - Cheers, Pumbaa

tedredrum - Daron, I obviously had a WMFE (wee brain flatulence experience) I could've sworn it was the second night at Shing. Sorry, my mate, I'll make it up to you (serves me right for taking so long to start the TR)

own - Agreed own, always an excellent thing

Grantmissy - It does a bit, doesn't it? I thought it had caught a buck of some sort, and the skull was all that was left (Now that would be a serious spider)

Hi Porridge & Jaxidean
Hope you remember us .. We were at the other end of your long trip down to
Satara .. Sporting our new 'Brownie T shirts' .. We still talk of the laugh we all
had standing by the fence while the guy in Cape Town Skyped the guy in Pretoria to
turn the web cam in Satara to get our pics .. Oh and us all drinking our 'coffee'!!! ..
Hope the rest of your trip went well, looking forwards to hearing about it
Ps.... Loved your wedding pics. You do scrub up well
Love & happiness. Della .. Victor (SO) .. Anne ( friend) xx

Hi della

Of course we remember you. It was a fabulous meet, and thoroughly enjoyed.

Thanks for the PS, you flatterer

For reasons you may be aware off!!!!! Any man in a " kilt" gets my vote

Lovely trip so far congrades and everything.

But I just want to say that this is gruelling it reminds me of the Very long ago good old days when you had radio stories and then it would stop and you had to wait till next week to hear the rest of the story. I'm on the edge of my seat waiting for the next installment.....thub oeps I feel of the chair.....

In order to assuage NetEk’s extreme withdrawal symptoms, herewith the continuation of day 2 of “Are we there yet?” on Kudu Radio 101.01 FM with your host, Porridge Oatspap

Day 2 continued

Being of the occasional unsound mind, my sieve of a “brain” thought that we had met a few more mites on the evening of this day whereas this wasn’t the case. The evening of Day One rather, we also met tedredrum, his brother deamole, and a host of their family and friends in Shing. They had been to Crook’s and back that day, so were quite tired. We had a drink with them, and then left them to eat their dinner in peace. (Sorry for being a little senile and “remembering” all cock-eyed, Daron!!)

Continuing on to Satara, a few vultures looking around



Gerries doing their thing



A little further on, I noticed quite a few starlings dive-bombing something in the road, and as we got closer we saw that they were not at all impressed by a snake!! Jax at this point, was lifting her feet off the floor of the car, not being the best friend of the serpentine persuasion. Unfortunately, the closer we got, we saw that this snake had been flattened by a vehicle, and had shuffled off its mortal coil Undeterred by the motionless snake however, the starlings continued attacking it. Not far past this, we also found a tortoise which had suffered the same fate and I developed a serious case of the mutters about speeding vehicles, both tourist and commercial.



Troop of baboons with babies a bit later


Wildebeest on his own



And the biggest posterior in the Park, presented for our titillation (What is it about the these animals and the bum poses??!!)



Finally arriving at Satara nearly 7 hours after leaving Shing, the obligatory pic of the Scopsie was taken



Meandering into the restaurant area, we ended up meeting some truly lekker people WendyA, DellaC, JaniceE, AnniOwl, Victor, Eastr and the infamous Heksie The Brownie T-shirts were distributed, bottles of Amarula were hauled out, and the fine crystal red plastic cups were duly topped off. A toast was made to the forum birthday, and then some more toasts to anything anyone could think of. We made our way to the Satara fence at the webcam, and great hilarity ensued while waiting for the webcam to turn and have a look at the very yellow bunch standing at the fence with posters depicting the various letters of Happy B-day. What didn’t help the giggling and laughing was when some poor person came walking up to us asking what we were looking at!! We nearly collapsed. (The fruit of the marula may have contributed. Not saying it did, but it may of)

For some odd reason, yours truly didn’t take ANY photos of this meet even though the camera was on the table Here’s one of the pics taken by the webcam



Once we had said our goodbyes about an hour and a half later, this highly camouflaged and inconspicuous vehicle was spotted in the parking lot



What a fantastic meet

Off we went on the trip back to Shing, and after being blocked for a while by an ellie that seemed to be quite chilled but I wasn’t taking any chances, we moved on, and saw this



Mommy and wartlets at the same spot



Pooh Bear in stealth mode



More gorgeous feathered scavengers



Remember the poor flattened snake and tortie? This MORON came roaring past us doing at least 80 km/h, which explains all the completely unnecessary deaths on the road



Zebbie baby and mom



Shy korhaan



And at some point during our travels, the reason why we were there in the first place. They were quite a distance off the road, so not the best pic but it was thrilling to see them



We made it back to Shing around 6pm, completely exhausted after over 370 kilometers at an average of less than 30 km/h. A quick braai, a few frosties, and an early night were just what the doctor ordered. Tomorrow we were off to Letaba.

Day 3 soon

Porridge, thank you for this "lekker" array of photos. Great Trip



.......as for the above, you get a lot of those "Mamparras" in the Park
Should take the name of the Company and Reg. number