(Thank you to Kimberlie Rawlings who commented on the game drive video of a bird posted previously. She notes that the bird is a spotted wood dove (nice to have experts) which is quite nice even if not special. As a she notes, birds are a vice nice part of game drives, especially if the bigger animals seems to be hiding. How true.)
(Note: I have a number of shots taken of the vegetation and geography around Manyeleti without any animals. By far we saw much more non-animal countryside as we went on the game drives and they were in many cases just as wonderful as the encounter with animals. There’s not much to say about these photos individually so I am presenting them in the next three posts often with little commentary. The subjects are (1) water, (2) trees, and (3) general countryside.)
We found little water around Manyeleti. It is a drier area generally than the surrounding reserves. That makes sense if we know it to be the area that was allotted to blacks for visiting under the apartheid government. In addition, as I’ve noted, we visited in winter, which is the dry season. Nonetheless we did come across some water. The photos in this post were taken over three days. Not included are water pictures from Botswana (where we were on the Zambezi River, or from Zimbabwe (where the Zambezi river tumbles over cliffs in the spectacular sight known as Mosi-oa-Tunya (“The Smoke that Thunders”) or as we Europeans and Americans call it, Victoria Falls. Don’t worry – we’ll have plenty for photos of both of these as well.
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