South Africa: Kruger National Park
 
We spent the next week happily tracking wildlife in the stupendous Kruger National Park, adjoining Zimbabwe and Mozambique
 

   


Our first critter: a yellow-billed hornbill with dinner
Impala: beautiful, but plentiful (150,000 of 'em!)
The endangered ground hornbill
Majestic and shaggy waterbuck
Giraffes are the real stars of Kruger...
...but don't tell this elephant that I said so
A wee hyena cub
Decidedly not-wee lion...
...with a younger friend
Note that the older one has a puncture wound
Slender mongoose
Brown snake-eagle
Waterbuck does
Planning the next adventure
Elephants right outside our camp
Karen demonstrating her binocular technique
Another tough vacation for Tuna
Warthog: so ugly it's beautiful, or just ugly?
There's nowhere vervet monkeys can't go
No tree is safe, whether from giraffes...
...or elephants
Brave adventurers on foot
Scanning for hippos while the ranger stands guard
Even in the dead of winter, some trees were in flower
Zebras: not the most exciting of animals
White-browed sparrow weaver
Happy hippos
Happy hippos?
Not happy hippos!
Elephants pretty much go where they please
A warthog all groomed for a night on the town
Hippos act pretty much the same on land
Even the common starling is eye-catching
Young baboons play King of the Tree (they both fell)
Hard-to-find nyala, a really elegant antelope...
...as is the Greater Kudu, whose horns are iconic
Crowned lapwing
The wildebeests are truly the goofiest critters there