Pilanesberg Continued.........

Pilanesberg Continued.....


I never mentioned this previously but the camp we stay in is called Manyane, it is one of a number of camps in the Pilanesberg.
And so to revisit the scene of the crime; the first one is the front of the chalet looking in the front door, the second one is looking at the chalet and patio from the back.  

Front of the Chalet

Patio at rear of chalet

This picture is the very scene of the crime, the culprit's (Baboons) entered the front door at approximately  15:30 Hours proceeded into the kitchen (right next to the front door) leaped onto the counter top opened the bread bin - very quietly, removed the muffins and exited very hastily back through the front door with me in tow.



The scene of the crime... ahh the Kitchen





Baboons of the muffin thieving variety



This photo is looking out from the patio into the bush that surrounds Manyane, and the second very dark one....... if you click on it and enlarge the 2 bright dots are eyes looking back at you from the bush.... 

View from our patio

The eyes stared back....

There are small herds of Impala that roam around in the resort along with a family of bush pigs, guinea fowl, Banded mongooses and numbers of other creatures .....did I mention Baboons ...... muffin thieving Baboons - do I sound a tad bitter.

Rhino Grazing next to our car

Sunset

Moon rise in the East

Watching me... watching you....

I'm just a passenger.....

Pilanesberg

Pilanesberg Weekend

Took the weekend off from jewelry; my wife Pam and I popped up on Friday afternoon to the Pilanesberg for our bi-annual timeshare weekend.
The weekend started off with a great deal of excitement when our chalet was raided by baboons while we were unpacking.... more fools us for leaving the front door open while we were in the bedroom - never ever leave your car open unattended or leave doors or windows open to the chalet unattended.

Well we did and in they came went straight to the bread bin on the kitchen counter and made off with the muffins, Pam heard them and yelled for me, I then made a very undignified dash after the baboons with a camp guard , to no avail baboons and muffins gone.

A tad large

After all the fun and excitement we decided to close the chalet and head straight into the park for a bit of afternoon viewing.

The elephants crossed two by two

The weekend however proved to be one of the best we have ever had, the game viewing proved to be exceptional, we were literally up to our eyeballs in animals, we watched as a herd of over fifty elephant too a bath (water, mud and sand) then wandered off across the veld crossing a main road right in front of us.

By the left quick march

I'm tho mad I could thhhpit........

We were also privileged in quick succession to see a brown hyena, black backed jackal and 5 lion, further viewing through the weekend included Rhino, Giraffe

 Lioness