{"id":3064,"date":"2010-07-03T11:24:01","date_gmt":"2010-07-03T18:24:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pierfamily.com\/wordpress\/2010\/07\/03\/02-june-2010-last-game-drive\/"},"modified":"2019-08-21T14:33:43","modified_gmt":"2019-08-21T21:33:43","slug":"02-june-2010-last-game-drive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.pierfamily.com\/wordpress\/2010\/07\/03\/02-june-2010-last-game-drive\/","title":{"rendered":"02 June 2010 – Last Game Drive"},"content":{"rendered":"

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It is reed gathering time in the parks and for the last month or so we have seen the women harvesting the reeds and carrying them to pick-up points. We had not seen this many bundles in one place before. Obviously Mary has a long ways to go before she is ready to be of much help but at least she is learning…<\/p>\n

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This was another case of being in the right place at the right time. As we drove around a bend a small herd of Cape buffalo started across the road. After we had taken our pictures – I missed one where the calf was trying to get a drink of milk and walk at the same time – and the herd had moved across we drove another K up the road and then turned around and came back. In the 2-3 minutes we were away, the herd had all but disappeared into the bush and we only saw a glimpse of one or two because we knew they should be there.That is why on a game drive one car can see lots of animals and another one just minutes later or earlier will say there were none to be found.<\/p>\n

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We love Cape Gloucester starlings and we saw many on this trip, but none posed for us a these two did. As we crossed over a small bridge we saw this young dead nyala on a sandbar. It did not appear that it had been killed by a predator and there were no scavengers around. Perhaps it was very ill and had come for a drink and had just laid down and died.<\/p>\n

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Mary took the picture of the dry creek bed with the mountains in the background. I chose one of the myriad of wonderful dead trees that dot the landscape of the park.<\/p>\n