{"id":3309,"date":"2016-03-24T09:46:03","date_gmt":"2016-03-24T07:46:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/?p=3309"},"modified":"2016-05-06T16:29:21","modified_gmt":"2016-05-06T14:29:21","slug":"kruger-2016-part-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/?p=3309","title":{"rendered":"Kruger 2016, Part 6. It’s the tiny things too."},"content":{"rendered":"

We decided to go to Letaba for breakfast, past the maybe-dead zebra foal. Turns out he was fine. Just past that, at Twisappel, I saw something sitting — thought it might be a leopard, but it turned out to be a jackal — two of them in fact.<\/p>\n

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This is at full zoom + digital … they were far away.<\/p>\n

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Here they are on the sunny side of the vlei.<\/p>\n

Tanya’s brother had told us that there’s a dead hippo close to Letaba so we went looking for it.<\/p>\n

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The hippo skin is so thick that the vultures can’t get inside.<\/p>\n

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The central to northern part of the park is better for birds, not so good for cats.<\/p>\n

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Look at the wingspan on that thing.<\/p>\n

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This little fellow took forever to cross the road.<\/p>\n

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This fellow was slightly quicker.<\/p>\n

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We decided to go to Letaba for breakfast, past the maybe-dead zebra foal. Turns out he was fine. Just past that, at Twisappel, I saw something sitting — thought it might be a leopard, but it turned out to be a jackal — two of them in fact. This is at full zoom + digital … they were far away. Here they are on the sunny side of the vlei. Tanya’s brother had told us that there’s a dead hippo close to Letaba so we went looking for it. The hippo skin is so thick that the vultures can’t get...<\/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-3309","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\/3309","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=3309"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3309\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3326,"href":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3309\/revisions\/3326"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}