This morning we packed up the truck and left Satara Camp and drove around some more of the park before stopping for breakfast at an outdoor restaurant.  We got out of our vehicle and went into the shop to order our meal and when we came out our vehicle was filled with Vervet Monkeys.

Vervet with Mars bars

Vervet with babies

One of them got away with someone’s bag of Mars bars before we could get them away. We saw some lions up on some rocks—a female and about 9 cubs.

Mother Lion with cubs

Just past this on the road Dirk pointed out a very small sleeping Lesser Galago or Bushbaby.

You have to look close to see his furry head.

After lunch at a restaurant along a river we found a Giant Kingfisher.

Giant Kingfisher

In the afternoon we stopped to see another lion who was lying under a tree trying to get out of the heat next to a waterhole.

Hot and tired lion

Along came 2 very large elephants and we thought we might see something really dramatic but instead the Elephants, having noticed the Lion,  walked by and showed off their machismo!  It was quite entertaining.

Here comes the first elephant

You have to look closely to see how he was “showing off”.

Here are some of the things we saw along the drive:

Cape Buffalo

Nyala

Coqui Francolin

Black collared Barbet

Wahlberg’s Eagle

There are 61 different species of raptors (not including vultures) in South Africa.  We had 33 on our list of possibles of which we found all but 9.

Hippo with Red-billed Oxpeckers

Iris along the road

We ended the day at Pretoriuskop Camp on the other side of Kruger.  This is the oldest camp in the park.  The bungalows were about the same as at Satara—sufficient, but not elegant, but did have a fridge in the room and air-conditioning.