DragonSpeed's Fotothing

Beautiful series!! That must have been a dream come true! ;-)

I find I spend quite a bit of time trying to find a reason to validate a trip back. It was AMAZING.

This series is just the elephants. It's going to take SOOO long before I get all the animals posted up.

I certainly look forward to see more of this trip...;-))

The BEST way, is to go yourself!!! :)

this is amazing... just look at those tusks....!!
we are in South Africa, and go to the Kruger National park to see animals..
there is a few National Parks with elephant and even private game reserves..
Most of these places have the complete BIG FIVE...!!!

Liz - I really wanted to get down to SA. I have colleagues in Jo'burg. Unfortunately the extra cost of the flights would just have been too much!

We saw all of the big five during out trip. The only thing that we didn't get to see (and probably the reason to go back) was the Cheetah. :)

Oh.. one do not see them often... the Leapard too.. because of the long distances to travel.....also in SA the grass are so tall we do not always see them above the grass level. we once saw only the back moving as the animal was walking... we are also not allowed off road... so you just had to sit in the car and hope for the best.
we are close to JHB.... Pretoria...!!!

We got lucky on the Leopards! Two of them together on an early morning, sitting about 20-30 ft off the road in the Northern Serengeti! They played together a bit and hung out for about 15 minutes.. AMAZING!

The tall grass was one of our fears, but we were well positioned - standing through the roof of the Land Cruiser so that we could shoot into the grass.

Perhaps one day we'll get back to Africa. Hopefully sooner, rather than later.

I know.... but its a very expensive trip from Holland! And FT is a nice alternative to enjoy all beautiful places on the World!! ;-) But I agree: seeing it yourself is always the best.... but not always possible!!

Well - save those pennies (or Euro cents!) :)