November 9th-PHOTOS!

Good morning!

It looks like photos are coming this morning!!(You can click on any of them to enlarge) Woo hoo! Guess it paid to stay back. It will still take awhile though, so I will try to pick out the best. David has the camera with him so the lions from last night will have to wait.

I decided to stay back this morning and sleep in-til 7:00. It was really raining this morning, and that would be fine, if it wasn't so unseasonably cool. Our last 2 drives have been raining and the one yesterday morning was brutal, very windy. Yes the soap dish at least for now is still the scariest thing here.

Oh wait....ok I was just delivered my cappuccino. We are really roughing it here in the bush... haha

Last nights' drive was amazing as usual. We hung with a pride of 5 lions for awhile-4 females and 1 male. They are very at ease here while observing. Actually sometimes too much at ease, we can't get 'em to open their beautiful eyes. We get very close. We also saw 6 cape buffalo, very big. We had sundowners, which is where they set up a linen table in the bush and serve your favorite cocktail, cook up some chicken wings and watch the sunset. The only sunset we did experience we did not stop because there were too many animals to watch. But as you can see, the sunsets when they show up are killer!

Thanks Miah for following and taking such good care of my boy! We will see you Saturday! Unc David said he would smack one on the ass for you.(I envision the movie Wild Hogs) I swear their manes look like they just came back from the salon.

I don't know if it makes a difference, but I am publishing the post now and editing it after as I am worried my pictures will mysteriously disappear.

David just got back from the morning drive and he is very cold and wet BUT he did watch a large male leopard with a kill in a tree...see what you can miss? They said they think it will still be there on this afternoons drive. I am burned out here so I will not be sending those til later. I have been here over 2 hours now. Internet just not like at home!
I will try to add another post later with some more pictures...
Love to all,
Julie
This is our group from Zulu Nyala. They were all great people.Gudrun, this is me on the right with the flowered shirt

Wildebeest

Oomps this one's for you!

David eat your heart out! Kudu

Tyler this is for you! It's Pumba!

Monitor lizard

bush snake

Vervet monkey. As they say here in the bush, they are very "naughty creatures" They are always causing trouble.



Nyala female



Monitor

These are white rhino, which has a more square snout, the black rhino which has eluded us, has a more round snout, but they are the same in color



Weaver Bird


Me and my happy feet in the Indian ocean.

And now for my Nat Geo photos! It truely is breathtaking!

November 8th

What a difference a day makes! Let me first say that we now fear our soap dish, but I will get to that in a bit. I am going to attempt to load some more pictures, but this is a reeeeaaaallllly slow computer.

Gudrun, all was good at the Protea, so thanks! And with David's technical skills, I am sorry to report that your call did come through but David thought he had to hang up...~rolling eyes~

King's Camp is indescribable! To our camp from the plane, it was probably 5 minutes and on the way we saw a lion and lioness lazing under some trees right off the road.
We got in just in time for some fabulous lunch and 45 minutes later we were on our 1st drive. Unlike Zulu Nyala, where there were 3 safari vehicles surrounding 3 elephants, we were one vehicle surrounded by 30 elephants! It was an incredible sight! But not to be outdone, 2 leopard were relaxing on a termite mound, just like you would see on National Geographic. Our photos are awesome, I am just not sure what I will be able to share or when. It was hot, the african sunset is everything it is made out to be. We got back around 7-7:30 for dinner, which was fabulous....BUT...in the distance...anyone want to take a guess? There was lightning and the wind picked up. Ok this is where the soap dish comes in. I am in bed and David comes out of the bathroom abd says "so what is 13 degrees celcius and 19 degrees celcius? Because that was the low and hi for today. We are now freezing our asses off, the wind is really whippin and on and off drizzle. I was so flipping cold this morning I could barely stand it. So if it does not change, I will probably not go out tonight-it was brutal. Plus all our cold weather clothes are now dirty. So we are doing laundry for about $75.00 lol

Ok so this morning's drive, since it was so cold, pretty much all but the impala were bedded down staying warm. Oh and of course the 50 elephants we were surrounded by again. I just can't describe it. BUT our biggest thrill were the male lions that we were literally 5 feet from. They are just so magestic. The one was truely the LION KING! 2 of the them were the sons of the big male. Usually they move off on their own, but like one of the guys on our drive said, the economy is probably getting the better of them and they had to come home. They are about 3 years old and it is very unusual. But with the cool weather they were huddled together. The big male-Dad, was about 100' away, keeping somewhat of an eye on them but more or less just napping. They are so awesome.

So while I was drying my hair in our huge room(by the way we are extremely catered to) in the mirror, I could see behind me a herd of about 30 elephants about 200' from us, all different sizes, just mozying past. It really is indescribable. Although we did see a lot at Zulu Nyala, it is different here because it truely is wild. I so want to share our pictures with you. I'm Trying!

Yes You You we may have had a tough time just the 2 of us. But it truely is amazing!
OOMPS we love you too, and we have some great pictures for you!! I can't wait to show you! Can you give Miah a call and check on Riddick for me please? I am not checking emails. Next thing you know I am on a working vacation.

Love you all and thanks again Gudrun for having our back!