out of sequence

A few days behind posting, and a little out of sequence now, for technical reasons, but I never talked about the trip to Cape Vidal on the 25th. Our festivus was a little rainy at times, but sunny enough to get a little burned at the beach, and full of animal encounters.

After leaving Hans and Franz, we travelled through the Southern part of iSimangaliso Wetland Park, and saw some ugly-pigs (or "warthog" as they call them here), twirley-horn deer (or "kudu" as they call them here), and meany-cows (or "Cape Buffallo" as they call them here), along with other various ungulates.

(zoom to enjoy)

We spent some rainy time on a rocky beach, and some sunny time on a sandy beach.

And the highlight of the evening was a surprise drive-by by a Pointy-pig (or "white rhinocerous" as they call them here). I know, he loooks black in the photo, zoom way in, he is being back-lit a bit, and he had the two characteristics that differentiate him from a black rhino: he had a flat muzzle (not beaked), and he was eating grass (not leaves).

Both the black and white varieties are making combacks after nearly hitting extinction a few decades back. Still, several hundred of the few thousand remaining were are poached every year. It is sad that the worst thing for an African animal's suvival potential is to be accused of giving rich Asian men erections.