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Alaska Goes to Africa: Kudu, Kruger National Park, South Africa   – Image 2667

Alaska Goes to Africa: Kudu, Kruger National Park, South Africa – Image 2667

My website usually only shows images of Alaska. But for next couple of months, I plan to show images that I took last October while visiting South Africa and Namibia. Male kudus have the most impressive set of horns of any of any animal we saw in Africa. A stylized version of kudu horns are the logo emblem for the South Africa National Park system. Their horns can grow up to 72 inches in length and make 2 1/2 graceful twists from base to tip. Kudus are browsers eating mostly leaves and ...
Alaska Goes to Africa:Impala, Kruger National Park, South Africa  – Image 2666

Alaska Goes to Africa:Impala, Kruger National Park, South Africa – Image 2666

My website usually only shows images of Alaska. But for next couple of months, I plan to show images that I took last October while visiting South Africa and Namibia. Impala were the most common animals in Kruger National Park and seemed like we saw thousands of these critters everyday. Impala can jump nine feet high and leap over 30 feet in length. They are incredibly quick and fast reaching speeds of over 50 miles per hour in a dead run. We were in Kruger in October which is the end of ...
Alaska Goes to Africa: Giraffes, Kruger National Park, South Africa  – Image 2665

Alaska Goes to Africa: Giraffes, Kruger National Park, South Africa – Image 2665

My website usually only shows images of Alaska. But for next couple of months, I plan to show images of Africa that I took last October while visiting South Africa and Namibia. Again, giraffes are my favorite African animal. I took this image while staying at the Bushman's Wildness Trail camp. The wilderness trail system in Kruger allows visitors the opportunity to get off the road and stay in remote camps that accommodate only 8 guests, two park rangers and one cook. We stayed in a small ...
Alaska Goes to Africa:Elephants, Kruger National Park, South Africa  – Image 2664

Alaska Goes to Africa:Elephants, Kruger National Park, South Africa – Image 2664

My website usually only shows images of Alaska. But for next couple of months, I plan to show images of Africa that I took last October while visiting South Africa and Namibia. What's not to love about elephants? Elephants are Africa's quintessential wildlife species. Kruger Park has them everywhere with a estimated population of over 11,000. My wife and I saw elephants every day we were in the Park for our two-week stay. South Africa in 1920 had only 120 individuals and through ...
Social Weaver, Etosha National Park, Namibia  – Image 2663

Social Weaver, Etosha National Park, Namibia – Image 2663

My website usually only shows images of Alaska. But for next couple of months, I plan to show images of Africa that I took last October while visiting South Africa and Namibia. The sparrow-sized social weaver lives in an "apartment house" in the trees. Dozens of pairs of these little black-chinned birds cooperate year-round to maintain a thatch like roof over the colony, which may contain 300 chambers (one per pair). The thatched mass sit in a tree and may be 7.5 meters (25 feet) across ...
Alaska Goes to Africa: Cape Glossy Starling, Kruger National Park  – Image 2662

Alaska Goes to Africa: Cape Glossy Starling, Kruger National Park – Image 2662

My website usually only shows images of Alaska. But for next couple of months, I plan to show images of Africa that I took last October while visiting South Africa and Namibia. The cape glossy starling has the most wonderfully iridescent blue coloring and the coloring alone made me want to get an image of this bird. Actually the bird is relatively easy to photograph. The species in Kruger is quite friendly and ubiquitous at all of the rest camps and rest areas...almost to the point of ...
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