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Comb Duck Sarkidiornis melanotos, Leeupan, Kruger National Park

Chacma baboon caught running across the patch of grass at the Kruger Gate, Kruger National Park. A couple of them were playing on Oom Paul's statue when this one dropped down and started running to the other side of the bridge. It looks quite guilty, don't you think?

Resting in the shade after what seemed an unsuccessful hunting attempt. When we came upon this female and her almost fully-grown cub it seemed as though she was trying to hunt impala, and though there was no intentional interruption of this attempt she did not pursue the matter. I cannot help but wonder to what extent unsuccessful attempts at hunting can be attributed to the presence of vehicles (i.e. humans). Kruger National Park

Cheetah, Leeupan, Kruger National Park

We visit the Kruger National Park very frequently, but in the past 21 years have seen cheetah only once before - approximately 19 years ago Willie tells me though I cannot even remember it. Thus we were thrilled when when we came across this female and her almost adult son this past weekend. What made the sighting especially nice was that they were in open terrain and quite close to our vehicle.

These photographs are for those who may know the areas well or who have expressed an interest. According to SANParks they found no carcasses of large mammals that had drowned and though infrastructure suffered a lot of damage and many streams have altered course much sediment has been washed away and the ecology would be renewed as a result.

The first photograph shows the high level bridge over the Sabie River near Skukuza. The bridge withstood the onslaught of water and suffered mostly damage to its railings.

Unfortunately we left the wide-angle lens at home and thus the photographs I took of the river courses do not really tell the story and I did not post them.