Our African Adventure

On August 25, we packed our lunch and our friends, the Leavits, and headed for Pilanesberg National Park.  We left at 6 a.m. and drove for about two and a half hours.  It was a beautiful warm day and so we entered the park hoping to see an animal or two.  This is what we saw:

We don't get to wear our casuals very often.

A big white Rhino

Plenty of Wildebeasts

 Kudus

An Ostrich prancing down the road

We didn't bother him one bit

Many Zebras - aren't they cute!

We thought the three zebra behinds were especially cute

We think these little guys are Duikers

A troop of Chacma Baboons walked across the road

We saw lots of these cute little Impalas.

A Crimsonbreasted Shrike

Three lazy hippos - they only come out of the water at night to graze so we were lucky that we even saw these lounging on the shore

A Pied Kingfisher - we watched him bang a big fish on the limb until all of it's bones were broken so he could swallow it - quite the procedure

A herd of elephants with about five or six babies

This baby couldn't have been more than a few days old

We enjoyed a nice picnic lunch

This big guy was just having lunch

This big dude treated us to a mud bath demonstration - he spent about 10 minutes splashing his whole entire body and then he said "Oh what the heck

I'm just going to roll in it."

Hilarious!

His trunk was just exhausted after all of that splashing so his tusk is a good place to rest it

A Cape Glossy Starling

Yep, he/she just posed for us - I'm printing this one and hanging it on our wall

And last but not lease, a mama Rhino with her baby.

We only missed the cats but we'll have to catch them in the early morning or late evening some day.  What a fun adventure we had!