I was lucky enough to spot our first animal in Kruger National Park, and it was a zebra. What a moment! Steve had to back up to find it. We sat there a long time with the motor off just gazing at this little guy while he looked back at us.
It is not particularly easy to spot any animal, and our eyes eventually would become buggy from looking so hard and for hours on end out the windows to see something. Our speed was limited to about 40 kilometers per hour, but even then that was too fast. Often someone would yell, "Stop!", we'd back up, peer eagerly into the bush, and discover it was only a dead trunk of a tree or a big rock. Later we were informed that what we saw was an ALT: animal looking thing. We saw plenty of those.
Sometimes we would glimpse only part of an animal for a very short time.
The animals were not always close to the road, either. Our binoculars were invaluable accessories. The zoom feature of my camera was priceless since I just use a Panasonic Lumix point and shoot.
The zebras are my favorite animals.
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