Tuesday, June 17, 2014
South Africa Trip - Touring Photos
The hunting portion of our trip is displayed in other posts (links at end of this post). We took thousands of photos while touring. This is an attempt to sort out some of the best touring photos. I whittled it down to 155.
Where we stayed near Uitenhage South Africa.
The lodge.
On the grounds of the lodge.
A lunch.
Dinner - 3 courses.
The lodge is on the "Mohair Highway". Another local road is the "Merino Highway".
Gum trees.
Over looking Kirkwood which is a citrus producing center.
Porcupine hole. We saw one on the lodge driveway one night and it was huge.
Springbok
Gemsbok (Oryx)
I think Steenbok but may be Duiker
Mountain pass on the way toward Craddock.
Driving by Addo Elephant National Park. We visited it later. This is the famous Armstrong fence to contain the elephants.
Amazing sunrises and sunsets
Another lodge meal
Port Elizabeth. Joan had a shopping day here.
Resident giraffe at the lodge.
Waterbuck
Warthog pasta
Meercats at the Cheetah Rescue Farm.
Leopard
They had two young lions there too.
Lots of cheetahs
Friendly cheetahs.
Serval
Cheetah
Caracal
Leopard
Leopard
School choir waiting for ride. Passed on our drive from Cheetah Farm to Schotia Private Game Reserve.
Touring vehicles at Schotia.
Giraffes
Eland
Blue Wildebeest
Cape Buffalo
Ostrich
Springbok
Newborn Springbok
Nguni - African Cattle
Termite mounds
Joan on photo safari
Bonnie and Clyde - resident rhinos
Their horns were poached several years ago.
Black Wildebeest (Gnu)
Hippos
Elephant and hippo at water hole
Schotia had one male, two female and four baby lions. Normally they are free roaming/hunting on the 5000 acre Reserve but they had depleted the zebra antelope population so they were temporarily in a smaller containment.
At BBQ on grounds at Schotia.
One of the largest National Parks in South Africa
We saw hundreds of elephants
Sniffer up checking the wind.
Warthogs
Kudu
Elephants have right of way.
Merideth toured with us on Addo visit. She was another lodge guest from Colorado.
Large bull transferred from Kruger National Park to expand gene pool.
Zebra. Burchell's variety (has shadow stripe).
Not sure what this was.
Warthog
Kudu
Hartebeest
Kudu and zebra
Idiot tourists posing for pictures 30' in front of the largest bull elephant in the park. You are not supposed to leave your vehicle.
Don't remember.
Endangered dung beetle.
Cape Buffalo
Traffic jam.
This is not posed. They were just frolicking and did this.
Hartebeest
The park goes all the way down to the Indian Ocean.
The loser in an elephant fight 5 days earlier. Now a feast for black backed jackals.
These monkeys are like rodents - running across the roads dodging cars all the time.
Protective Mom telling car to back off.
Eland
Typical proximity to elephants in park.
The deck at the lodge.
On to Cape Town. This is a "Township" which is government provided housing. There are also huge squatter camps/slums.
Afternoon tea at the Cape Grace.
Bad weather during Cape driving tour.
Made it all the way south on our 37th wedding anniversary.
New lighthouse at Cape Point.
The white thing on the rock is the old lighthouse.
Overlook
Access out to old lighthouse.
With Willie, our guide, at the funicular.
Lunch in Simons Town.
These are native near the lodge.
The walk from lunch to the Penguin Preserve. The weather improved.
African penguins
Fluffy babies.
Dinner in Cape Town.
View from our room.
Table Mountain in clouds behind Joan.
After clearing 30 minutes later.
Cape Grace Hotel in background.
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