{"id":5658,"date":"2024-07-31T06:00:01","date_gmt":"2024-07-31T04:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/?p=5658"},"modified":"2024-08-21T13:18:15","modified_gmt":"2024-08-21T11:18:15","slug":"winter-kruger-day-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/?p=5658","title":{"rendered":"Winter Kruger &#8211; Day 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Day two was overcast and kind of dreary.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5661\" src=\"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/IMG_4869r.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" \/><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5660\" src=\"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/IMG_4872r.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Here we are having breakfast and watching the lone Crested Barbet between all the opportunistic starlings at Lower Sabie at 10:30. We were out of the Skukuza gate at 0600, of course we were&#8230; but sometimes the first bird does not get any worms at all. So breakfast time it was.<\/p>\n<p>After breakfast there was a commotion on the bridge. Hmmm, couple lions on the move.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5662\" src=\"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/IMG_0761cr.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"449\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I went wide, hoping to catch up with them, found some elephant, no lions. So we went back over the bridge, found some more elephant.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5663\" src=\"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/IMG_0787r.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5664\" src=\"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/IMG_0796r.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"568\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5665\" src=\"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/IMG_0768cr.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"583\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Brown-hooded Kingfisher.<\/p>\n<p>So we went back to the bridge where more lions had come out the woodwork.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5666\" src=\"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/IMG_0778cr.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"521\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A female and two not-quite-cubs-anymore. Yea, hard to make them out. I like taking pictures like this one:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5667\" src=\"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/IMG_4881r.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Tanya taking the shot above.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5668\" src=\"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/IMG_0804cr.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"593\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Drove around some more, found Kori Bustards and a Burchell&#8217;s Coucal.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5669\" src=\"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/IMG_0813cr.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Day two was overcast and kind of dreary. Here we are having breakfast and watching the lone Crested Barbet between all the opportunistic starlings at Lower Sabie at 10:30. We were out of the Skukuza gate at 0600, of course we were&#8230; but sometimes the first bird does not get any worms at all. So breakfast time it was. After breakfast there was a commotion on the bridge. Hmmm, couple lions on the move. I went wide, hoping to catch up with them, found some elephant, no lions. So we went back over the bridge, found some more elephant. Brown-hooded&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[119],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5658","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-kruger-2024"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5658","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=5658"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5658\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5670,"href":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5658\/revisions\/5670"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}