Our Good Friday started at 0545 with an undulating 2 and a half hour walk learning about more of the little stuff - we got great sightings of a young malachite kingfisher,(today's photo) bush buck, a rock fig ( a fig tree rooting itself and growing successfully in and around a rock) elephant tracks. Ionna found the walk a little strenuous so tomorrow's will be slightly flatter for her! She was compensated with a morning ride to breakfast in the trackers seat. Wh...

With knowledge of the little things expanded we leave today for the greater Kruger big 5 game areas. Our first stop is the Balule Reserve. We had a later start to our day which was welcome and after our 0830 breakfast loaded up the jeep and headed up hill and down dale to the exit gate where we swopped back into the minivan. Enroute of course we set the camera traps - John and I chose the stretch of road where we saw the tracks with Dillon the other morning whil...