{"id":5688,"date":"2024-08-02T06:00:55","date_gmt":"2024-08-02T04:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/?p=5688"},"modified":"2024-08-24T14:38:32","modified_gmt":"2024-08-24T12:38:32","slug":"winter-kruger-day-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/?p=5688","title":{"rendered":"Winter Kruger – Day 4"},"content":{"rendered":"

Day 4. At the gate at 05:30, because that’s how we roll. Direction: zebra, of course.<\/p>\n

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When we got to the “scene of the crime” there were three police<\/del> two open tour vehicles on the scene already — they must have come in Kruger Gate and floored it down the S65 to get here before us — IMO the main reason why the dirt roads are in such an appalling condition — these guys are on a mission sometimes, and rightly so — but they need to be controlled and they are not.<\/p>\n

Also on scene were a lot of hyenas and vultures. See the dirt on the road where I’m guessing a hyena “stole” the guts that was lying next to the road.<\/p>\n

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Of course the hyenas keep sneaking up and now and then they get chased away again.<\/p>\n

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But eventually one of them got brave enough to grab most of what was left.<\/p>\n

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Now it’s the vulture’s turn to try to steal something.<\/p>\n

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And the hyena’s turn to chase.<\/p>\n

By half past seven there was very little left. So we did just that… because we had to go hook the teardrop and haul it up to Letaba.<\/p>\n

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Pitstop at Satara.<\/p>\n

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And just north of that, under a tree, a lazy horse.<\/p>\n

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Now remember, I’m towing the teardrop, jockey-ing is kind of difficult. And there were cars. Plenty cars. Some people made their own road next to the road (illegal, but I won’t report them, they were doing it to get past, not to hog the leopard).<\/p>\n

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(We took many photos).<\/p>\n

We could have stayed all day, but Letaba was still quite a long way off.<\/p>\n

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So after parking the teardrop of course we went out again, and found this hyena family living in a culvert on the H9.<\/p>\n

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Tiny babies… yay! Not great photographs… meh.<\/p>\n

Big five score for the day: 4\/5 (no chubby unicorns)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Day 4. At the gate at 05:30, because that’s how we roll. Direction: zebra, of course. When we got to the “scene of the crime” there were three police two open tour vehicles on the scene already — they must have come in Kruger Gate and floored it down the S65 to get here before us — IMO the main reason why the dirt roads are in such an appalling condition — these guys are on a mission sometimes, and rightly so — but they need to be controlled and they are not. Also on scene were a lot of...<\/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-5688","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-kruger-2024"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5688","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5688"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5688\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5713,"href":"https:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5688\/revisions\/5713"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}