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Hello! Welcome to my online travel-food-life journal/virtual scrapbook. I am a poet, playwright, journalist, editor and basic jack-of-all-trades writer. I was born in El Salvador and raised in Minnesota. I have just returned home from a year and a half in South Africa.

31 May 2012

Kgalagadi: All Girls Safari, Best of Part II

OK, here is the second part of my best-of-the-All-Girls-Kgalagadi-Safari pictures!

My first decent picture of a Cape Fox (these guys are nocturnal):


Doves sunning:


African Wild Cats, nocturnal and it is VERY rare to see them during the day: 


More adorable meerkats:



Momma lion and cub:




A warthog (extremely rare to see in the Kgalagadi as they like water, which is not abundant here):


A bat eared fox (another hard-to-photograph, nocturnal animal):


Rocks:


No, I'm kidding, they're lions!  Can you tell now?:


A ruffled up Marshall Eagle trying to escape the heat of the day:


Momma and Poppa ostrich and their clumsy, adorable brood:


A springbok eating the vines of a tsamma melon:


A very odd little springbok: 



He's odd simply because it wasn't the time of year for springboks to have their babies.  In Afrikaans, there is a great term for this, laatlammetjie (prounced LAHT-LAMEEKEE) which can apply to animals & humans.  As in, I, Lorena, eight years from my next sibling, am a laatlammetjie.  Anyhoo.



We saw 25 giraffes on one day!  That's almost half the population of the whole park:


A true, black-maned Kgalagadi lion.  He was gorgeous:


But he and his friends were very lazy & sleepy:


Another gorgeous secretary bird:


A pygmy falcon:


Tree & its shadow:


Psych!  It's a frigging leopard under there!!!!  Behold, the powers of Photoshop:



My first leopard!  At that moment, I SO, SO wished Aaron could have come with us.  He's been wanting to see a leopard since we got to SA.  Ah well ... next time.  Cuz, yeah, there's gonna be a next time ... Soon!

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