John.Thome.2BWild
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Just to keep your appetites for Africa whetted: 
friends invited us to spend this past long weekend [Mon 27 April = Freedom Day] with them at their Ingwelala hide-away adjacent to the Kruger National Park. There are many of these private properties bordering on Kruger, all fences down, so in essence fully integrated with Kruger. For those of you who know the area, Ingwelala is a jump to the right from the lowveld town of Hoedspruit, and two steps to the left. A little bush paradise. Here's a short photo report. ;D
On the drive in: A pair of Tawnys feeding on a baby Impala in a tree. This was possibly scavenged from the nearby Wild Dogs earlier in the morning
The mate has this growth on its chest – a bit bigger than a golf ball – what can that be?
Later, we were to spend over an hour with these same 10 Wild Dog, waking up from their midday siesta with much meeting and greeting before they got underway...
16:30 and the hunt begins. They soon isolated an Impala and ran it down out of our sight in the bush. I must stress that Wild Dog sightings here [in most of Africa] are regarded probably as the most special and exciting, as they are a very rare and diminishing species, with very special and unique military modus operandi in their amazingly intelligent communication in locating prey and their execution of the kill.
The more so if you're able to spend time with them, as we were. They ignore vehicles and simply carry on with their way of life as we follow!!
This Hammerkop has the unusual ability to walk on water
Our host's Beauty and The Beast (actually these Cruisers are both beauties)
Beacon Boma. We spend one night here, sleeping on the deck under the stars
We soak up this magnificent, never ending view over sundowners
By sunrise the overnight dew had almost soaked right through our bedding
Of course, before we knew it, and all too soon, the weekend was over and we were heading home.
friends invited us to spend this past long weekend [Mon 27 April = Freedom Day] with them at their Ingwelala hide-away adjacent to the Kruger National Park. There are many of these private properties bordering on Kruger, all fences down, so in essence fully integrated with Kruger. For those of you who know the area, Ingwelala is a jump to the right from the lowveld town of Hoedspruit, and two steps to the left. A little bush paradise. Here's a short photo report. ;DOn the drive in: A pair of Tawnys feeding on a baby Impala in a tree. This was possibly scavenged from the nearby Wild Dogs earlier in the morning
The mate has this growth on its chest – a bit bigger than a golf ball – what can that be?
Later, we were to spend over an hour with these same 10 Wild Dog, waking up from their midday siesta with much meeting and greeting before they got underway...
16:30 and the hunt begins. They soon isolated an Impala and ran it down out of our sight in the bush. I must stress that Wild Dog sightings here [in most of Africa] are regarded probably as the most special and exciting, as they are a very rare and diminishing species, with very special and unique military modus operandi in their amazingly intelligent communication in locating prey and their execution of the kill.
The more so if you're able to spend time with them, as we were. They ignore vehicles and simply carry on with their way of life as we follow!!
This Hammerkop has the unusual ability to walk on water
Our host's Beauty and The Beast (actually these Cruisers are both beauties)
Beacon Boma. We spend one night here, sleeping on the deck under the stars
We soak up this magnificent, never ending view over sundowners
By sunrise the overnight dew had almost soaked right through our bedding
Of course, before we knew it, and all too soon, the weekend was over and we were heading home.
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