Kruger - Satara to Tsendze
Trip Start
Jan 17, 2011
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Trip End
Ongoing
Kruger National Park, South Africa
Saturday, April 2, 2011
* Satara - Olifants - Letaba - Mopani - Tropic of Capricorn - Tsendze
* no honey badgers even though I circled the whole of satara
* much easier getting the new tent down and even saw the remnants of another pop up tent left behind at a site
* possible lion sighting but everyone was with binos saying they "thought" they saw them so i moved on and passed a guy who said about 3km up the road there were brown hyaena on the road. No luck but it would've made my trip just to see that
* nice lookouts
* Vervet monkey at N'wamanzi lookout along with honrbill both very friendly - not so much to the family who were mostly gettting too close. (same place as when I went with LEO that a vervet tried to get into the van...)
* good buffalo and ellie sighting
* first sighting of the day 4 white rhino right on the road - and it was my sighting for about 10min before more cars came and basically herded them away
* Last 2 ellie sightings of the day very close and cool - 2 by the river with a stinky bull in musth and when i dropped into Mooiplaas - I could hear one in the bushes when I got out but couldn't see it then at a picnic area overlooking the river there was one having a drink then dug a little mud/ water hole and gave itself a shower
* Tsendze - allocated campsite, no electricity, mopani and russet bushwillows between each site. Laughing dove, starlings, cape turtle doves and woodland kingfishers everywhere as I checked my car (oil, etc). Outdoor shower - trying it tomorrow
