23 November Asanta Sana Reserve

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DSCN8063 Heading out to botanize and explore DSCN8065 Rhinos and buffalo cavorting DSCN8066 in the dry bed of a reservoir DSCN8068 climbing up the mountain side
DSCN8069 Definitely 4WD road DSCN8070 Upward over steps DSCN8073 Nadine and Petersberg in the bottom DSCN8074 Looking up to the ridge
DSCN8075 Big country DSCN8077 Even bigger DSCN8080 Outcrop on the way up DSCN8081 We needed several runs at this section to get over it, Nadine holds Kurt
DSCN8082 Camo bird DSCN8085 Up on top DSCN8086 a rock wall? DSCN8087 We will walk from here
DSCN8090 Kurt snoozing in Superman socks P1120660 Landrover parking spot DSCN8091 Leaving DSCN8092 Wow!
P1120663 The summit P1120664 and a half track DSCN8093 Native iris DSCN8118 with foot
DSCN8119 a beauty! 20161123 100722 Windy and huge! DSCN8120 Tiny flowers DSCN8121 flowers
DSCN8122 Christine, Nadine and Kurt DSCN8123 Ungrazed grassland DSCN8125 exfoliation DSCN8128 women and child
DSCN8130 making their way out of the wind DSCN8131 more flowers DSCN8132 flowers DSCN8133 the wind is weaker here
DSCN8136 we are not alone! DSCN8137 Karoo vegetation DSCN8138 Karoo veg DSCN8139 landscape
DSCN8141 rock scape P1120764 deciding on the route DSCN8142 nature morte 20161123 111140 more rockscape
P1120834 high in the air P1120841 Christine with Petersberg in the bottom P1120843 Heading off to the summit DSCN8143 Ridgetop
DSCN8144 Christine in the immensity P1120851 Clouds building DSCN8146 Deciding to head down DSCN8147 Showers all around us
DSCN8149 Down!! DSCN8150 Fenceline DSCN8152 Lightning strike above us! DSCN8154 We wait for the tortoise to move
DSCN8155 He has a dent in his shell DSCN8157 Approaching the settlement DSCN8160 Rhinos resting DSCN8161 dehorned
DSCN8162 old style animals DSCN8163 from the Ice Age DSCN8164 but still with us DSCN8165 Convection above the cricket field
DSCN8166 Rain brewing DSCN8167 Kurt looking around DSCN8169 Lunch being served? DSCN8171 Gale force winds blew the doors open and required wedging with furniture
DSCN8173 the windmill turned furiously DSCN8175 Tortoise in the rain DSCN8177 Down it comes DSCN8178 A deluge
DSCN8180 but then the sun comes out! DSCN8182 post storm light DSCN8183 working on the cricket pitch again DSCN8184 Thunderheads behind the mountains
DSCN8186 Waterbucks DSCN8187 let's take a walkt DSCN8189 Storm clouds DSCN8190 The Earth at work
DSCN8191 we go off to see the stream DSCN8192 donkeys and clouds DSCN8193 a little runoff DSCN8194 shadow
DSCN8196 Ralph and Nadine's house DSCN8197 Skyscape DSCN8199 ungulate DSCN8202 herd of ungulates
DSCN8203 tortoise DSCN8204 I know what you mean... DSCN8205 grazing grounds DSCN8207 herds grazing
DSCN8211 beautiful beasts DSCN8213 tinged with light DSCN8214 a passing Eastern Cape conversation is 30 minutes, minimum DSCN8215 beautiful
DSCN8218 edenic DSCN8219 sunbeams DSCN8222 evidence of rain DSCN8225 knelling warthogs
DSCN8226 so they can use their tuskd DSCN8228 the old schoolhouse now with wifi! DSCN8231 the rhinos come in DSCN8237 mix of species
DSCN8238 rain in the mountains DSCN8239 rain and gazelles DSCN8241 can't get enough of the gazelles DSCN8242 a kudu with a cock-eyed horn
DSCN8243 Sunset I DSCN8244 2 DSCN8245 3 DSCN8246 backlit
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DSCN8251 thunderheads still abouve us 20161123 200615 evening in the salon with the animal heads and fire