Zebra

I need another trip to Africa.  It won’t happen in 2020, so maybe……2021?????   It’s hard to say at this point, but we had such an amazing trip to Africa last time.  So, another is a “must do” for us at some point.  Of course, I’ve also been saying we need to return to Iceland and that hasn’t happened yet either.  To many great places, too little time and money….. 

I captured this Zebra photo on one of the many game drives we completed in South Africa or it could have been a game drive in Swaziland.  I can’t remember anymore.  Side note, Swaziland changed their name to Eswatini in 2018 after we visited.  Regardless, enjoy the zebra pic!!

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Baby Baboon

Tonight’s photo is from our South Africa trip.  Hard to believe that was over two years ago now.  During one of the safaris, we came upon a troop of baboons including a few babies.  This guy sat down near our safari vehicle and let us take a bunch of photos.  By the way, I have no idea what is sticking out of his mouth.

Clarification:  In my Mid-Life Crisis video (posted last night) I mentioned it is getting close to my birthday.  What I meant is that my birthday is coming up within this year…..  Basically, using that as a lame excuse to justify my expensive camera gear purchase….  So, it isn’t my birthday anytime soon.  Sorry to confuse you….

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African Bull

I honestly don’t remember if this is a male bull or a female African Elephant.  I’m 90% sure this was a bull.  Regardless, I took this photo during a safari with MJ in Kruger National Park South Africa.

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South African Hippo

Short and to the point tonight…..  Here is a photo I took from our South Africa trip.

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Wildebeest

Here is a wonderful scene from our South Africa trip.  I loved all the safaris within and out of Kruger National Park.  I want to go back….  Can someone help me with this?

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African Rhino

We found these two beauties during one of our game drives in Kruger National Park South Africa.  This isn’t a zoo photo.  These are the real deal in nature.  Just a wonderful experience.

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The Herd

Looking through my feed, I noticed I haven’t posted any animal photos recently.  That got me thinking about our trip to South Africa, which lead me to this photo.  This was one of those magical moments that’s hard to explain.  This herd of elephants came down over the hill to drink and play in this river.  We sat there for a long time just watching the fun.   Just….well magical. 

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African Elephant

I don’t’ know what to say on the blog tonight.  I selected this photo I took on our trip to South Africa.  I love the photo and the memories that go with it….watching this truly wild animal in his environment…. So I’ll just leave it at that.

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African Rhino

I can’t remember if I captured this photo in South Africa or Swaziland.  Regardless, it was the same trip…..anyway, I hope you enjoy it.

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Water Safari

Keeping with my recent theme of photos involving “water”, I have another one for you tonight.  This is from our 2017 South Africa trip.  Along with the normal game drives and safaris, we did a water safari, which ended at sunset.  I took this photo of another boat doing the same thing.  Enjoy the warm orange glow.

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Rhino

Its hard for me to believe that it has been over a year and a half since our trip to South Africa.  How did that happen?  I guess that’s just how it works…. As they say, time flies.

Anyway, tonight I have a photo of a two Rhinos from that trip.  What a great experience….. I’m still thankful to our guide (Henk) and all the great travelers in our group who all helped make the trip a wonderful.

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Hippo

How is your week going so far?  I can’t believe Wednesday is already over, that tells you how busy my schedule has been.  So I’ll keep this short tonight.

I took this photo on our water safari in South Africa.  I loved how the hippo looked with the sunset behind it.

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Dumbo

I hope you’re having a great weekend.  It’s been about six weeks since I posted a photo from South Africa.  And we both know, I still have tons of photos from that trip.  So, I’ll just drop one on you from time to time.  Tonight’s photo is of a huge beautiful guy that entertained us for about 30 minutes.

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Vervet

Everybody needs a little Vervet Monkey in their life.  I know I enjoyed my time around some of these wonderful creatures in South Africa.  I took a bunch of photos while they played around us and tried to get our food.

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African Elephant

I don’t know about you, but I’m not ready for the weekend to be over.  I need to figure out how to be on permanent vacation.  I think the word for it is “retirement” and I’m not even close to that point yet.  So I’ll just have to get my head back into the game.  In the meantime, I’ll use this photo I took in South Africa to help get me there.

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Impala

I haven’t shared a photo from South Africa lately, so you’ll get one today.  This guy tried to sneak through the bush without us seeing him, but we caught him in the act and I got this great photo.  He’s an amazing and beautiful animal.

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The Look

MJ and I ran into this guy while on safari in southeast South Africa.  As you’ve read before, we had a wonderful trip to South Africa with dozens of great animal experiences.  This guy looks tough, but he didn’t threaten us or anything.  And He allowed me to capture his portrait.  Handsome looking dude…don’t you think?

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Wildebeest

I haven’t posted an African animal photo in a while, which is probably a good thing.  I’m sure you needed a break from them.  Regardless, here is another from that amazing trip.  Towards the end of our safaris, we came upon this group of Wildebeest.  They are such a unique animal…..  I loved them.

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Hyena

I have so many great photos from our South Africa trip.  I can’t help but post more and more photos from that journey.  I hope you don’t get tired of seeing them.  On this safari, we had some wonderful luck and found lots of animals including a pack of hyenas.  They didn’t seem to care that we drove up to them.  It was as if we didn’t exist.  They ignored us and just went about their business.  I assume he had eaten recently, since it looks like his fur is red from blood around his mouth.

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Lioness

I’ve been trying not to over load you with photos from our South Africa trip.  As I’ve said numerous times, MJ would be happy with one safari animal photo after another.  So today’s post should make her happy… Will it make the rest of you happy???  Its doubtful.

We found this Lion during one of our safaris.  She was actually with another female lion.  They walked right towards us and cross the road in front of us (maybe 10 feet away).  A few minutes later, we watched them cross paths with a few Cape Buffalo, who turned and forced the Lions to keep going.  I thought the Lions might win that encounter, but I was wrong.  Apparently, a few of the Cape Buffalo can easily fight off the Lions.  As you can tell from the big scar on her leg, she’s been in some fights before.  

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