KR night 3

Last night in KR. Today's drive back to Skukuza, the camp with attached airport, was rather uneventful. We spotted a jackal and ostriches, the only new animals of the day.

There's a family of warthogs just rooting around on Skukuza's campgrounds:

Note how they genuflect to get at low lying food. 

I realized I hadn't really explained what the living quarters in a camp bungalow look like. This is the hut:

Our Honda Ballade, slightly smaller than a Civic:

The outdoor kitchenette:

It's strange that they leave all the cookware outside where baboons might grab them to lick off residue, but it seems to work. We're going to cook on the hot plate tonight, as the Cattle Baron Grill and Bistro really let Gabe and me down for lunch. And I mean really down. 

The inside of the bungalow:

Everything is kept very clean; you're not going to find much to object to with the accommodations at Kruger. Any of the public bathrooms are going to be spotless. 

Later: 

We went on our game walk and saw... just impala. The walk was still plenty educational, though. We learned about elephant dung and how it looks from elephants' mixed-feeding habits. They eat bark/leaves as well as grass, so their dung has a reddish tinge. Whereas white rhinos eat only grass, which is obvious in its dung. Black rhino eat twigs on top of grass, but chop the twigs up straight unlike the elephant's diagonals. Just walking about showed us so much about tracking and understanding animal behaviors. The silver lining to the uneventful walk was spitting a leopard on the way back!

It was padding along in silence. When it crossed the road behind us, we turned to watch it and snap pics. Some impala across the road started barking and tensing up, spilling onto the road to get out of the leopard's way.

We also saw a hyena just chilling on the roadside:

We made good on our promise to cook ourselves dinner. The fruit of an hour's labor:

Note the South African National Parks logo on the plate. Not pictured is the banana pudding we made with our snack bananas and wheat bread, plus a can of desert cream from the shop.