ian123running
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Giraffe legs in bush by ian123_running, on Flickr
Such a stoic look in the last one, but man, he looks like he could be trouble if he wanted to be!Been editing a few more from our november trip. These were taken at Cape Vidal. It was the alpha male Sykes monkey in the area around our cabin. He was a persistent blighter and wasn't really scared of me even when I chased him off with a big stick etc. Just kept coming back waiting for opportunities to steal food.
_DSC1721-1 by Colin Bailey, on Flickr_DSC1725-1 by Colin Bailey, on Flickr
_DSC1729 by Colin Bailey, on Flickr
Always strikes you in Kruger - vervet monkeys, and particularly baboons in the wild are fabulous and fascinating (and provided me with some of my favourite photos) and pay very little attention to people. But in the camps and cafes / rest stops they are a total menace and very unpleasant. Incredibly you still see people feeding them (and the birds) right in front of the 'Don't feed the animals' signs. We saw a particularly blatant example of this at Afsaal (a cafe / rest stop in Southern Kruger) in February and I did go over and have a gentle word... Last time we were there even a warthogs was aggressively grabbing food. It's just about the only thing I don't like about our Kruger visits. I guess in lockdown they will have left the camps but are bound to return!
Wow. We were in that pool (now watering hole) in Letaba in February. Lovely camp. We stayed in very nice safari tent cabins there for £31 per night for a spacious 4-bed cabin on the fence line.Vervets usurped at rest camps now
https://twitter.com/jolakaziza/status/1257579041147756544/photo/2
Afsaal has a new cleaner
https://twitter.com/FarinaLindeque/status/1257937685106302977/photo/1
There's a water hole not far from Phalaborwa that we go to regularly. You can be surrounded by Vervets and chacma baboons but they take no notice of you. Mind you, if they knew that they were 2 male Lions 100 metres away, they might have made excuses and vanished!
That’s rubbish. Only the white morph counts. (seriously great photo)Booked our flights to South Africa for February so looking forward to getting back to Kruger. Was last there in December 2019
One from last time
Paradise flycatcher by Colin Bailey, on Flickr