Holiday time !!

This is the Mica pride at Vleischfontein waterhole

We just left Madikwe Yesterday to come and face the traffic of Joburg, and we realized why we live in the bush. Its time for our two weekly holiday. Gues where we are going for a whole week...................Kruger National Park! I know its a busmans holiday but I just cant get enough and besides it is so different going by yourself. You can really just relax. If you want to spend three hours with an Ashy tit you CAN ! ...by the way that is a bird. There will be more photo opportunies arising. What is nice about kruger is you can drive and drive or go and sit stil at a hide at one of the water points and just relax and enjoy nature. In Kruger I also go out with this thought : Always expect the unexpected !!! That is what I always tell my guests, the unexpected could be something WOW !!. The WOW I am hoping for is a leopard stretched out on a big branch of a Marula tree. :)

This image was taken in Aug 2009. A mature territorial White Rhino bul killed this 3 year old sub-adult. His mother was in oestrus and the youngster refused to back of and in the process got killed, yip nature is cruel but so fascinating. The vulture action was amazing !
So we are leaving Saturday morning very early. We are going to start up north at Pafuri, Crookes corner and make our way down south to Lower-Sabi. I will try and post on the blog where we have reception, other wise will update you guys when I get back.

This was the last pups the Dwarsberg pack had last year and they are all doing VERY WELL. Five survived out of the seven pups, not bad considering the amount of lions we have.

So I am off, hope fully I will be able to give updates as we go !

Grant