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Glen79 and GT_Steel

Hiyah!

Kay Sira Sira - whatever will be will be - comes to mind as far as all my holidays are concerned, esp a trip to the Park.

Elzet

Maybe i should move over to South Africa i cant see it being that hard as my Wife is from there we do have a little boy but i bet he would not mind to much? then I could be a Ticker and a Spaceman as i would have more time to go there.

Better yet, a maximizer!

PS. Don't want to spoil your fun, but no lifts in the Kruger to install and fix. Jokes aside, if you like the bush so much, what are you waiting for?

My little one adores animals and loves visiting the Park - probably runs in the genes?

My Son loves animal's as well and looks so happy when he see's a giraffe as it his one of his favourite animals. How old is your little one then? A maximizer would be a good word for what i would be. lol

I like the idea of a "maximiser" too!

I'm looking foward to my 2nd visit to the park this summer. The last time I was there was in 2005 and I kept a diary of what we saw and where and how we felt about it. It wasn't a tick list as such more a "oh my gosh how lucky am I to see this" list. I've re-read over that little note book so many times in the last 4 years and talked through it with my boyfriend and dad and it's brought me so much enjoyment. Just like looking through the photos I took and watching the camcorder stuff.

We have already planned our route for our first morning out of Lower Sabie this July!! When you're on the other side of the world waiting and waiting to get back to the Kruger - planning our routes and anticipating where we'll go is half the fun of the build up.

When you come from so far away having things to look back on are brilliant - we're not all lucky enough to have photographic memories!!!
Gemma x

I love to see the pictures when i get back from places like the Kruger and that is why i put them on a website so other people can see just how amazing the Kruger and South Africa is even though it get bad press. I would go back in a hart beat.

GT

Elzet , I agree with your 2nd last paragraph on your 3rd last posting , you think wisely !

Now that I have agreed with you , some of my detractors can rev me , surprising they haven't had a go at you yet .... of course , its a long weekend , they are queuing up at Skukuza take away before joining the 50 vehicle traffic jam at the lion sighting , yes the one where all you see is the ear movement through the grass ....

Tx Ndloti! I'm still waiting to be stoned sooner or later (my PC's 'windows' might not welcome it though). But hey, I've got a right to voice my opinion in terms of the Constitution! And others have a right to voice theirs.

GT_Steel, thanks for promoting my country and the KNP. Both which I love dearly, but yes, I'm not blind to its plethora of problems/problematic issues/p*nk g-str*ngs... (But this is a whole new topic for another time and day...).

To answer your question, my little one will soon turn 8. We took her to the KNP when she was one year old (and annually ever since), and whenever we drove past or stopped next to a giraffe close to the road or on the road (shame, probably the only animal that she was able to spot from her little piccolo), she would point at the giraffe and make happy, gurgling sounds. Till today it is still one of her favorite animals, but her 'ultimate' animal nowadays is a cheetah. She has now turned to photography - and takes very good pics, I might add!

To the others - BTW, I never said that pics are not fun and of course they stir good ol' memories. What I meant was that we do not frequent pics from moons ago, but rather look forward to opportunities of new pics and adventures to come. (I'm sure that one day in that ol' rockin' chair on the stoep of the old age home, I'll look at them with fond memories (or not having an idea of where I am or who I am, let alone what animals are on the pics!?).

Of course! , I have just realised that I am fortunate to be situated relatively close to the KNP, and I can truly comprehend that our overseas visitors will have a different outlook on this... So yes to foreign tickers!

(Of course, frequenting the Discovery and Animal Planet channels are also good reminders of good times and good sightings.)

@Ndloti You must talk slower, we cannot shovel it that fast man. Me thinks those lions ears the peeps were stopping at was you on a trail having a relax.



Elzet, don't let on to Ndloti that you have a kid or worse still that it gurgles and makes sounds.


Have a good Easter all. Ndloti, thanks for the laugh.

Yeah BB, maybe I'm a mental Ticker regarding the big cats and dogs but that is where I draw the Ticker line!

I'm a maximiser as defined by Elzet.

elephus, we are in the same league. Your identification of birds are spot on. We don't need books to identify birds...it's all common sense. Don't forget about the flying bird though, I have seen a few of those as well.

Hi Elzet, you are really something else and I enjoy your great sense of humour!

It seems that you do understand the purpose of going to the bush. For me the whole bush experience is about relaxing, bond with the family again and enjoying the creation of our Creator!

If eating dry wors and biltong while watching the birdy num num parrot makes you happy, so be it.

Many moons ago I was a big five chaser driving like mad seeking them, then I became a pure ticker and more cultivated searching for the small stuff like birdy nums nums, insects, and anything else but the big five. Lately I've evolved past the cultivated phase and I'm back searching for the big five and mostly lions and everything else is a bonus.

Well, my point is to go out there and do what makes you happy.

Check my first effort on this thread

Hi TheunsH and Elephus

Don't forget about the diving, hover and floating birds!

Birdie-num-num - LMAO

and my favourite bird, the tasty one on the brrai that evening, the humble sheeking! (chicken)