While on a game drive at Samara Private Game Reserve near Graaff-Reinet in the Eastern Cape I spotted a set of tracks next to the road. Too big for an antelope and definitely not a horse or a cow as it's inside a game reserve. Possibly a buffalo? Hoofprint from a giraffe was the answer … Continue reading Giraffe spoor
The patterns on a giraffe must be amongst the most interesting in the animal kingdom. They're not just spots, they're more like carefully laid slate stones.
A giraffe at Amakhala Game Reserve outside Port Elizabeth gawking at the tourists gawking at her. Actually, she posed very nicely for us all to get a couple of photographs.
The Mini vs Maxi trip was starting to draw to an end and we were just about done with our morning game drive at Bucklands Game Reserve. We had one thing left to do and that we to find some giraffe to walk. We got as close to them as it was possible with the … Continue reading Giraffe tracking on foot… and breakfast after
During our wonderful stay at Bucklands Private Game Reserve during the Mini vs Maxi trip we had the opportunity to go on two game drives. The first one starting at about 15:00ish (sorry, but I just can't remember the exact time) in the afternoon with the other one early the next morning. As we were the only … Continue reading Game drive at Bucklands
On my quad biking experience at Areena Riverside Resort during the Mini vs Maxi experience I met Abby. Not being very tall myself, I've never really been into tall girls. Not that I disapprove of their long legs and lanky bodies, just that I always preferred somebody about my length. When we encountered Abby she seemed to … Continue reading Smack on the lips
Port Elizabeth is blessed with two stunning small game parks within the city boundaries in the Kragga Kamma Game Park and the Seaview Game and Lion Park. Both of these have a number of different animal species that can be view on the game drives through the park. Most people get quite excited when they … Continue reading Giraffe
It is amazing how beautiful some animals are. The tiger, leopard, cheetah, giraffe and a couple of others must heave been in the front of the row when God created the animals and were dishing out the skins. Poor warthog must have been standing close to the back. Here are a couple of close-ups of … Continue reading Skin patterns
The giraffe... the world's tallest mammal. In Afrikaans a giraffe is called a kameelperd (camel horse). Just like a camel, the giraffe walks with both legs on each side of their body at the same time. But that's not what this post is about. Have you aver wondered about a giraffe's horns? Are they real … Continue reading Giraffe horns
These four giraffe crossed the road right in front of us at Kragga Kamma Game Park on Sunday. (Why DID the giraffe cross the road? The chicken was having a day off.) As soon as they were on the other side they stopped dead in their tracks and stretched their necks (get it? stretched their … Continue reading What’s everybody looking at?
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