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Meandering Mouse
 Post subject: Re: The Empire Strikes Back - Yoda in Kruger Again
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Yoda, what a superb tusker pic, absolutely amazing sighting. I also love you little Klipspringer. So neatly posed 8) ... as for the doggies :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen:

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MM,

Thanks for your comments :thumbs_up:


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Makungwe and Wild dogs!!!! Yoda, the empire sure did strike!!!

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Cape of Storms wrote:
Makungwe and Wild dogs!!!! Yoda, the empire sure did strike!!!


Cape of Storms, we had some great sightings! :D


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H12

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Hippo
Baboon
Impala
Kudu

We turend left onto the H12, and were rewarded with the one of the most fantastic Elephant sightings I have ever had.
There were litterally hundreds of them in the river bed on the left. They were in small groups stretching back as far as the eye could see.

Was this one herd that had spead out to feed? Or a meeting of a few different smaller herds?

We sat on the bridge for well over an hour to watch them. After a while they started coming up the embankment in front of us, crossed the road at the start of the bridge, and then came down the other side to go back into the Sabie reed beds.

Btw, the railings on the bridge had not been repaired after the 2012 floods and this was nearly 12 months later :big_eyes:

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Philip1
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:clap: Lovely Ellie photos :dance:

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It mustve been the wisdom in Yoda that came out to have found such exceptional sightings! Its no wonder your; your daughters hero :D

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Brilliandt sighting, yoda. :cam:

It is really amazing to see such a number of ellies together. We had such and experience in Dec'11 on S46 next to the Letaba river as there were hundreds of them all moving in the same direction. It puzzled us too. :hmz:

Thanks for sharing. :thumbs_up:

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Yoda, those pictures leave me wanting to get up and just go immediately.

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Yoda,

Must have been a awesome sighting. :clap: :clap: :clap: :clap: ...great :cam: .

Thanks for sharing. :popcorn:

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Philip, SL, Kaapsedraai, MM, Trrp,

Thanks for the comments. :thumbs_up:

It was a special sighting.
Judging by the way the different groups were interacting, it was not all the same herd.
But I am not an expert.


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Great ellie shots, Yoda,

and even wild dogs :mrgreen: :clap: :dance:

I can tell you that the railings are meanwhile repaired :dance: :dance: :dance:

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Lovely Ellie sightings Yoda! Beautifully captured too! :clap: :clap:

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Awesome little ellies!

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yoda
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Pumba - I was a bit concerned. There were bits of railings poking about. It looked dangerous

hilda - thanks

COS - thanks


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