Sometimes you see one kind of animal only once, maybe twice. Here are some animals we only saw a few times. These are male and female waterbucks. That distinctive white arc on their rear helps you to identify them when you see them a second time.
This was our first ostrich sighting. Usually they were very far away and hard to photograph.
A very large Blue Wildebeest was seeking shade under this magnificent marula? tree.
Cape or African Buffalo are very intimidating and can be very dangerous.
Later we saw a large herd of Cape Buffalo along a river. Those brown rock-looking things out in the river are hippos!
One place that was always marked as a safe place to alight from your vehicle was a space marked exactly in the middle of a bridge. I expect the authorities would not expect people to get into too much trouble there. This is the only crocodile we saw, and it was only about two feet long.
Striped skink were really rare to see, too.
We stopped at Red Rocks, a place where we could get out of the truck and stretch while we looked for animals.
Maybe we should have brought an offering for Khubyane, master of the universe, because we only saw a bird, but what a bird! If you click on this photo to make it larger, you might find him almost right in the middle.
He is a Saddle-billed Stork.
I think it was far too hot for animals to be out in the heat of the afternoon even when there was plenty of water.
Only funny looking humans would be out to read about being at the Tropic of Capricorn.
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