If you haven’t been to Addo…. there are several hundred elephants, mostly tucked out of sight in the thick bush, but we were lucky to see almost a hundred of them at Hapoor Dam – drinking, splashing muddy water over their backs, resting, arriving and leaving in family groups, babies sticking to their mothers and trying not to slip into the dam, young adults playing in the water.
The day was very hot, in the mid-thirties or higher, so the waterhole was a great attraction. Some just came to drink in a row along the edge.
One or two eyed us and we were a little anxious when approached later by a group walking down the road in the opposite direction. They calmly moved over to the other side and slid past us – we could have reached out and touched them!
Addo has a few remaining tusked females.
A large Kudu resting in the shade
Buffalo – the only one we saw
At another waterhole we watched a herd of Eland approaching, probably wanting to drink, but something spooked them and they gathered speed until they shot past the water. Amazing to think that an antelope that stands about 1.6m at the shoulder and weighs between 400 and 600kg can ‘pronk’!
Leopard Tortoise
Black-backed Jackal
Red Hartebeest
Keeping an eye on the lions
Roadblock…
The Warthogs were everywhere