{"id":5711,"date":"2024-08-03T06:00:01","date_gmt":"2024-08-03T04:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/?p=5711"},"modified":"2024-08-24T17:24:05","modified_gmt":"2024-08-24T15:24:05","slug":"winter-kruger-day-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/?p=5711","title":{"rendered":"Winter Kruger &#8211; Day 5"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Having been this far north before, we did not have high hopes for spotting much. We did however have shopping to do, and washing, so.<\/p>\n<p>Started the morning with a trip to the Engelhard Dam, but that was not a great choice. The dirt roads are terrible. We decided to stick to tar for the rest of the trip (this decision did not last, and I suspect the S25 is what eventually broke my car, but hey).<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5714\" src=\"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/IMG_5061cr.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"537\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Sable Dam gave us some impala and a relatively nice pic of a Fish Eagle (why are they always facing away?).<\/p>\n<p>Exited the Kruger, went shopping in Phalaborwa.<\/p>\n<p>And then we sat in Letaba, next to the river, and watched the plains game walk by. Very peaceful.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5715\" src=\"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/IMG_5112cr.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"172\" \/><\/p>\n<p>But! Someone spotted an owl right next to the walkway next to the river.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5716\" src=\"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/IMG_5080cr.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"1174\" \/><\/p>\n<p>So there was that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Having been this far north before, we did not have high hopes for spotting much. We did however have shopping to do, and washing, so. Started the morning with a trip to the Engelhard Dam, but that was not a great choice. The dirt roads are terrible. We decided to stick to tar for the rest of the trip (this decision did not last, and I suspect the S25 is what eventually broke my car, but hey). The Sable Dam gave us some impala and a relatively nice pic of a Fish Eagle (why are they always facing away?). Exited&#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-5711","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\/5711","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=5711"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5711\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5717,"href":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5711\/revisions\/5717"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}