All pictures are now online. My mate Neil and I had a blast, driving around the park, and seeing beautiful animals in their natural habitat.
Highlights:
-Seeing a pride of seven male lions.. Extrememly unusual!
-Finding a pride of lions in beautiful morning light, and watching them play
-Seeing six! leopards! One of the rarest cats. One of them hunted what looked like two Steenbok, but missed it's meal.
-Seeing jackals! They are like small coyotes, and very beautiful.
-Hyena. After many days of near-misses, the last two days proved pretty fruitful to see these animals. They are the most unnerving predators, as they are the most curious and least fearful
-So many eagles! Wow. Huge birds of prey the likes of which you would NEVER see anywhere in Europe (except maybe here)
-And of course, Cheetah! Just as we were leaving the park, we got a tip that two Cheetah were sitting next to the side of the road not a few km up ahead. So lead-foot Lawler raced to the scene (of course, at no point breaking the speed limit)
The majority of my favourites are here in my Smugmug galleries and I urge those interested to have a look, because the files there are much higher quality than what you'll see here. Remember to click "slideshow" in the top right corner.
Here are a few of the best IMO:
Sunrise in the Kruger. There's an eagle in that tree if you look closely. It's eating a monitor lizard.. not that you can tell!
Our first lion encounter! I love the tongue of the little cub poking out there
One of my favourite shots from the trip. I'm going to work on this some more when I get access to my PC
Impala portrait
Just before a hunt!
Another favourite of mine - these buffalo are POWERful
Croc
Lazy. The image isn't too sharp; it was so hot and there is LOTS of haze in the picture
For you Sal!!
I tried for a motion shot on quite a few animals, and I'm glad it worked with this Hyena
A fairly common bird; some kind of hornbill
Croc vs Catfish
Cheetah. Beautiful hey?
Cheetah profile
This fella was the winner of a fight we'd just missed. The loser is in my gallery. Be sure to check it out
Leopard, the most beautiful cat. All that white fluff around the edges are unfortunately branches, but thank God for shallow depth of field!
Kingfisher. No idea what type. Neil will know as he's the birder!So what's next for Adam? Well the year isn't over, and I have a few other travel ideas for before Christmas. I had planned to head to Florida for November, to watch the next Shuttle Launch, but alas, for reasons to do with employment, that has had to pass (for now).
I also hope to update the blog software here. Hopefully I will be able to orient this site towards my photography a bit more, and the first thing that needs doing is to "pimp it up" a bit. So look forward to that later this year.
Anyway, hopefully all are well. Thanks for following my journeys so far, and keep your eyes peeled, because I ain't finished yet!
Adam
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