Holidays!

In winter time some animals hibernate and others migrate. Last week we came out of hibernation and migrated for a week up north to the Limpopo province. This time we were going to camp for more than a week, so we invested a bit in camping gear….my car is too small now. For our next trip I think we will have to invest in a trailer for all the gear, and goods and toys. On the photo below you can see that we are “sorted” and camped in luxury.

We camped at the Eiland Health Spa close to Tzaneen. The main attraction is huge heated swimming pool and since it was low season we were the first people in the pool in the mornings and the last people to leave the pool on most days. The water is heated in a boiler room to around 30 degrees and that is warm enough to stay the whole day in the pool.

I took a lot of pictures of the Cape Glossy Starlings that camped with us; they kept our camp site clean of anything that is remotely edible. We were visited by a pair of squirrels that helped themselves to our cookies; the byte marks on the plastic lid gave it away, at least they posed for a nice photo the previous day.




One evening we were preparing a fire and we saw branches move behind us, I recognized the silhouette and ran for my camera. It had only the 17-85mm IS lens on it and I took a picture with the Speedlight attached. The eyes of the bush baby lit up like two headlights and the picture looks surprisingly good.

We took magazines and books along to read but we did not get round to it. We don’t know where the time went but we came back from our migration at least a bit rested.

More photos can be seen here