by Kate Barba

Today we went into world-renowned Kruger National Park for an all-day game drive.  You can drive yourself through the park, so we got an early start and arrived just past dawn.  The park itself is beautiful with a variety of landscapes from riverside forests to open grasslands.  We only drove a small portion of the park, but the diversity and sheer numbers of animals we saw was amazing!  We saw our first big cat, plus a barrel of monkeys, a tower of giraffes, a parade of elephants and herd after herd of impala.  Gwyn decided to do a population study by counting the number of different times we saw each kind of animal:

Animal sightings:

• Impala – 58 (!)
• Giraffe – 10
• Elephant – 9
• Kudu – 5
• Wildebeest – 5
• Monkey – 5
• Warthog – 4
• Zebra – 4
• Hippopotamus – 3
• Buffalo – 2
• Hyena – 2
• Leopard – 2
• Crocodile – 1
• Lion – 1

Without further ado: our “best of” pictures from the day!

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