Prior to going to Africa, I had Amber’s blessing to buy a 300 mm zoom lens for my camera. Oh, I wish I had made a better effort to actually go and buy it. Anyway, I got these shots of animals in the iMfolozi-Hluhluwe Game Reserve in South Africa. Thanks to the Waldron family for taking me along!!
elephants – didn’t see many, and all from a distance
giraffes – very fun to watch in herds
baby zebra – note that it isn’t “zee-braw,” but rather “zeb-raw”
white rhinoceros – we saw a total of 32 of these, often on the road, so we had to turn around in this instance, we didn’t see any of the rarer black rhinos
leopard – cool sighting since it is rare to spot during the day, not sleeping
leopard tortoise – it was moving
cape glossy starling – very pretty
warthog – lots of these in groups, they kneel when they eat and their tails go up when they move, like a flag on an a banana bike
baby warthogs
guinea fowl
vervet monkey – they are like squirrels
wildebeest – among my favourites, so wild looking
cape buffalo – this one was super old and haggard looking
dung beetle – very fun to see it working
impala – very prolific
baboons – a family with red butts
showdown – cape buffalo vs. white rhino, the rhino backed down
nyala – this is a female, the males are darker and have long horns
