A nice rooster from Farm Inn
The tame cheetas at Farm Inn are very cute
And we could pet them
I want a hug!!!
A foreign guest...
This one lived outside my room at Farm Inn
And I first met this bloke at night. Scared me like hell...
White lions are killed by the others in the wild, since they can't hunt. But in captivity there are about 300 around the world
A nice day for sleeping
This was a big MF...
A mushroom growing outside my room
Einar photographing crocodiles
A lizard lounging
A meerkat
And two more meerkats
A dinosaurs tail
Lazy croc
Don't want to meet him swimming
Interesting facts about crocs
Let's see. If I lie like this, wonder if somebody is stupid enough to fly in
Small crocs
A grey heyron that is not afraid of the crocs
A nice bird
The open road in Pilanesberg. We saw a lot of animals here. I have tried to identify most of them...
An African Leadwood Bushwillow?? Maybe not so exciting for South Africans, but very exotic for a pale Norwegian. Somebody actually used this in a presentation: http://www.almacgroup.com/papers/Papers/Combretastatin-web.pdf Look at the acknowledgements...
Umbrella acacia
Some more roads
And we always knew when something was going down...
A very wet Impala
And a nice zebra
A zebra
Notice the bird on the neck
It sure rained a lot while in South Africa
Wildebeest
The same wildebeest.
Wildebeest. A male is looking over his herd
A swimming hippo
Hippo in the water
Hippo
Hippos
RESTful vultures. Maybe someone should bring some SOAP?
A burned tree. The whole park had burned last March. Still it was very green now
Nice scenery
A giraffe
Giraffes are strange animals...
A nice symbiotic relationship
I think this is a jackal.
A lilac breasted roller
A Red Bishop
Black-collared barbet
Probably a mousebird (speckled or white-backed)
A pin-tailed whydah
Another black-collared barbet
Cattle egret
Another cattle egret
An eagle (probably Wahlberg's)
Marico flycatcher
Grouse. Not famous, but still...
We thought this was a swimming crocodile
But it was just a plain old turtle
This is a crocodile
A flap-necked chameleon according to Chris
Some nice rocks
A fungus growing outside my room
Waterbuck
Waterbuck. The ring is to make them easy to follow in tall grass
Impala
Impala horns
This elephant did not like cars...
An elephant with an attitude
Who does not like cars...
I was pretty scared for a moment when he made for the car
An elephant family
Female kudu
Kudu
The baboons slept on the dam at night to avoid the lions
Portrait of an impala
A secretary bird
A vervet monkey
A hippo grasing after sunset. Thank God for image stabiliser and ISO 3200
Another hippo grasing after sunset
A hyena marking its territory
Another impala portrait
A young male impala
An impala seeking shelter from the rain
And yet another one
Impalas through the grass. Can see why they are called the McDonalds of the bush (notice the black markings on their ...behind)
A Tsessebe
Portrait of an Tsessebe
Misty Mountains
Rhinos far away
A rhino closer. Luckily it was the docile white kind and not the aggressive black kind
Another white rhino
Sleeping rhinos. Just keeled over like a boat on land
Rhinos
A big moth taking a sip of my beer
Some food from the hotel
And the nice staff was always at hand to give us food
South African style dinner. Meat and veggies
