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May 26

Kruger National Park safari, part two of day two

This is day two of five of this serving as a photo blog. And today got out of hand, photographically speaking. Of the 260 photos I shot today, I have uploaded 36 (a 14 percent success rate!). Obviously that’s too many amazing images for one post, so I’ve broken it up into three. (See part one.) This is also the day I started kicking myself for not bringing a long lens. Nevertheless, this was a lovely day.

Some of what we saw on our second day in Kruger National Park included:

Lion
Impala
Zebra
Giraffe
Lilac-breasted Rollers
Burchell’s Starling
Elephants
Kudu

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May 26

Kruger National Park safari, part one of day two

This is day two of five of this serving as a photo blog. Today got out of hand, photographically speaking. Of the 260 photos I shot today, I have uploaded 36 (a 14 percent success rate!). So I’m splitting up day two into two posts, because why not. (See part two.) This is also the day I started kicking myself for not bringing a long lens. They cost thousands of dollars, for some reason. You can rent them, but you may as well be buying them. So I don’t have a long lens, and my photos reflect that sometimes. Nevertheless, this was a lovely day.

Some of what we saw on our second day in Kruger National Park included:

Hyena (not pictured)
Giraffe
Elephant
Bateleur eagle
Cape Starling (not pictured)
Hornbill
Leopard
Saddle billed stork
Impala
Zebra
Warthog
Ostriches (not pictured)
Wildebeest
Grand hornbill

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May 26

Kruger National Park safari, day one

We left our lovely little hotel in the financial district of Johannesburg to go to an airport hotel. At the airport hotel we were to be met by our next guide. At that hotel the cement floor in the lobby was done up as a series of airport runways. The runway numbers made no sense. I had enough time to notice this and pull out a compass and check them all and make a mental note of it, which is to say we got up too early. But soon enough our new guide, Simon, arrived. Tall, Afrikaner. Green field hat, shirt, green shorts, no shoes. He picked us, and one other guy up there. We stopped at two more places and picked up three more people. The seven of us are going on a five-day safari in Kruger National Park. So the next five days this becomes a photo blog.

On our first day we saw:

Elephants
Impala
Gabar Goshawk (not pictured)
Zebras
Wildebeest
African lap wing (not pictured)
White spoonbills (not pictured)
White egrets (not pictured)
Hippos
Lions
White faced vulture
Giraffes
Baboon (not pictured)
Hyena (not pictured)

These are all worth a scroll. It was, as you will see, a great day.

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