The area around Nanaga and eastwards is one of the biggest dairy producing districts in the province. These calves will one day form part of the milk producing herds at Nanaga Dairy Farm.
An elephant at Pumba Game Reserve chomping away on his breakfast, brunch, lunch, afternoon snack, dinner. I can't really remember what time I took the photo but it doesn't really matter because to elephants life is one big buffet.
Some people get real excited by seeing lions and elephants or even something rare like an aardwolf in real life on a game drive. The Damselfly had her moment when she saw real live hippos for the first time at Lalibela Game Reserve near Port Elizabeth. What made the sighting even better was that there were a number of this huge semi-aquatic mammals in the dam when we got there and the one then proceeded to get up so that we could…
After a spate of poaching incidents the total number of rhino's killed in 2012 for their horns have now topped 500. A very sad state situation and if this doesn't stop quickly then my (future - cause I'm not that old) grandchildren would never one day get the opportunity to see rhino in the wild... or even at all.
A quick trip out on the Elandsrivier road outside Port Elizabeth meant that I had to do a little bit of dirt road that morning. On the way back I noticed something on the road which looked like a stick and I have it a wide berth not wanting to damage a tyre. As I flew by I noticed the stick wasn't a stick at all but a puffadder crossing the road.The puffadder (Bitis arietans) is probably one of if not…
Its amazing how you get to interact with the animals at game reserves not just from on top of a 4x4 but somethings also face to face. At a recent visit to Pumba Game Reserve I was walking along the walkway to the rooms at Pumba Water Lodge when I passed this warthog grazing about 2 meters away. He looked up at me, snorted (as if to let me know I'm in his space and not vice versa) and watched…
"What are those things Mommy?""Those are tourists my son. They come out twice a day in the mornings and afternoons on those big 4x4's to gawk at us. Smile nicely now, that one is busy taking our photo."
I am always amazed to see some wild animals like elephants and giraffes eat off thorn trees. Elephants take the whole branch while giraffes curl their tongues around the branch and pull the leaves off. How come the thorns don't prick them? The thorns are angled slightly towards the end of the branch and bends over as the giraffe pulls the leaves off. Amazing isn't it?
I've been very fortunate to visit a couple of different game reserves over the last year or so and would like to share the following White Rhino pictures with you. In the light of the pressure that poachers are putting on the rhino population I won't divulge which game reserve I took the pictures at. Very sad really. We were lucky enough to see them on both our game drives and it was amazing just sitting there in silence while…
Addo Elephant National Park is such an awesome place and probably the best place in the world to view wild African elephants fairly up close from within your own car. This young bull was having a drink at Gwarrie Dam on my last visit and I kinda wish I could just plonk a camp chair next to the dam and sit and enjoy the place with him.