KR night 2

We made our slow drive up to the Satara camp in the middle stretch of Kruger starting around 9:30. The only new mammal we saw today was Burchell's zebra. Though we did get to see a few herds of them grazing in the slightly more open and arrid parts leading up to Satara. We did enjoy repeat encounters with elephants, giraffes, hippos, crocs, and especially water buffalo, a train of which held us up at a crossing for maybe several minutes. We got a little fatigued keeping our eyes peeled for a leopard napping in the trees. 

I don't have many pics because I was doing the driving. I made all the usual mistakes with switching to RHD -- looking for the shifter on the right, not using the rearview mirror, wandering too close to the left side of the road. It's not that hard to drive inside Kruger, though, with its max limit of 50kph and few cars on the roads. 

A large spider tending its meters-wide web:

Unusual vegetation:

The last is a huge baobab we took a minor detour to visit. 

All-American Breakfast at the ubiquitous Mugg & Bean:

Pretty close to a full English breakfast. 

"Russian & Chips" from an in-part rest area:

I had to know what the dish was, though I t didn't end up being that entertaining. A small group of vervet monkeys kept messing with diners, jumping on a couple people to steal their foodstuff. We saw a couple folks feeding them to take pictures. A shame. 

A cheetah statue at Satara:

There's only 120 in Kruger, so I have dim hopes of seeing one, but it would be my top choice.

Later: 

We went on an evening game drive after the morning game walk was sold out. Mostly a bust, but we did see a genet and civet, both nocturnal creatures.