Kruger National Park – Day 5

Days 1, 2 and 3 here, here and here

Day 4 here

Day 5 started at 6:00, going a few kilometres north from Lower Sabie.  We spent time at two dams next to the road, being entertained by numerous birds: various kinds of egrets, herons and storks, Hamerkop, Weavers, Kingfisher and an African Fish Eagle. 

The Saddle Billed Stork did not like the others encroaching on his fishing spot and kept chasing them away.

A brief return to camp for coffee was followed by a drive to the south. We encountered a male lion in hot pursuit of a lioness, who appeared to be doing her best to ignore him.

Further south we also saw a cheetah in the distance, not interested in coming closer, so the best I could do was a landscape shot with a cheetah as part of the landscape.

We saw another Fish Eagle and a Tawny Eagle along the way, as well as many elephants.

We returned to camp for lunch and to download photos, of which I had about 1500 from the morning, in order to clean our cameras’ memory cards for the afternoon session.

In the afternoon we went north again, seeing birds, giraffe, buffalo

and eventually ending the afternoon with a big yawn or two.