{"id":3291,"date":"2016-03-23T06:00:06","date_gmt":"2016-03-23T04:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/?p=3291"},"modified":"2016-05-06T11:00:53","modified_gmt":"2016-05-06T09:00:53","slug":"kruger-2016-part-5-painted-doggies-idiots-and-assorted-wildlife","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/?p=3291","title":{"rendered":"Kruger 2016, Part 5. Painted doggies, idiots, and assorted wildlife"},"content":{"rendered":"

Up early, on the road, and into Kruger.<\/p>\n

Now normally the first thing you see inside the park is a herd of impala. Pretty much guaranteed.<\/p>\n

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Not this time. The doggies had already picked up a following.<\/p>\n

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We didn’t bother joining the parade, but I’m pretty sure they followed the pack all the way back to Phabeni gate.<\/p>\n

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Look at this plonker. There’s a herd of elephant just off the side of the road, look where the Land-Rover is looking. Makes for a good selfie, no?<\/p>\n

I had the camera ready to film the carnage which sadly didn’t happen.<\/p>\n

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Rhino<\/p>\n

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More (different) rhino.<\/p>\n

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And also the little(r) things.<\/p>\n

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The Kruger was very dry. Look at this poor hippo in a mudhole barely bigger than he is.<\/p>\n

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We drove up via Skukuza, Satara, Letaba all the way to Mopani, where we were booked in for two nights. It’s a long but very scenic drive.<\/p>\n

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Marabou stork. I grew up on Huppelkind<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Not that far from Mopani, around 16:30, we came across a herd of zebras. This little fellow seemed to have given up on life, so I decided to come back early the next morning — a dead foal should attract some predators for a photo-op.<\/p>\n

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Up early, on the road, and into Kruger. Now normally the first thing you see inside the park is a herd of impala. Pretty much guaranteed. Not this time. The doggies had already picked up a following. We didn’t bother joining the parade, but I’m pretty sure they followed the pack all the way back to Phabeni gate. Look at this plonker. There’s a herd of elephant just off the side of the road, look where the Land-Rover is looking. Makes for a good selfie, no? I had the camera ready to film the carnage which sadly didn’t happen. Rhino...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[94],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3291","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-kruger-2016"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3291","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3291"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3291\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3315,"href":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3291\/revisions\/3315"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}