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South Africa Part 4: Olifants, Kruger National Park

6/27/2016

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 Kruger National Park, Olifants vicinity

From my journal:
The braided river below is spectacular! Hippos, lines of elephants drinking and river-crossing, giraffes, and  huge flocks of birds. We tried for a while today to find a Red-crested korhaan. It sounded like someone tapping a pick axe on a rock, but then there was a song. We finally put two and two together and figured it out with some research. Luckily, we bumped into the sound a little later in the day and were able to watch them, which is my favorite way to commit a sound to an animal in my memory. We did a short loop near camp and came back early to drink beer and eat nachos at the overlook restaurant (honeymoon....remember???), then headed back out on a road that winded along the river where we managed to find many impala, waterbucks, hippos, Fish eagles, Egyptian geese galore, and a double rainbow. Yep, a double rainbow. A good sign. Superb day! 

Eliot nearly convinced me of a rare sighting of a Pel's fishing owl, but after many hours and then an entire night of being perched on the same Boulder (capitalized in my journal because it was once my place name home, so I'll leave it), we realized it was an elusive Pel's fishing owl rock. Trickster. 

I think my our sheets are made from old woven barbie doll hair and combined with Lariam are giving me very bad dreams. 

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Rondoval living 
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Olifants curtains for our view of the Olifants River
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Marabou stork soaring and a Helmeted guinea fowl foraging 
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Waterbuck mimics dead tree shape
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Camp Olifants and tire repair
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Marabou stork 
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Giant Kingfisher 
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Cape glossy starling 
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