Safari Photos!!!!

It rained a LOT the first few day!

Morning game run coffee break

Mom and Sophia's "room" at Umlani Bush Camp (no electricity either!)

Red-billed hornbill

Hyena with a gazelle leg in its mouth!

Bush buck hanging out in camp!

The front "veranda" of our hut.

I was really taken by the many dead trees left standing after the elephants had eaten their bark, causing them to die. 

Driver and Tracker

Ox peckers on a hippo

Guinea fowl (like chickens to the South Africans)

Wildebeast

Cape Buffalo - female with 3 male (the male have more "helmet" to their horns than female)

There's a reason the game reserve is called "Thornybush"!

The male giraffe has tufts of hair atop his antlers

Traffic jam - "safari style"

Morning coffee with the giraffe!

Cheetah

European Roller (they were everywhere!) - When they fly they are an iridescent turquoise color all over their wings.

Mongoos

Ox peckers on a rhino

Both ends of the rainbow!

These gazelles are nicknamed "McDonald's" because of the M design on their backsides.

The Drackensburg Mountains in the distance.

Leopard - its name is "Twin Spots"