Monday, June 17, 2013

Mkuze for the weekend

The best part about flying is being able to choose a destination which would be far to drive to and then get there in a zip! Also great to have good mates who fly and can share these amazing experiences. We are so privileged to be able to do this and explore some of the incredible parts of our country. Mkuze area to the north of our Province is home to several huge game reserves and dozens of safari lodges. We chose Zebra Hills Game Reserve which is a game lodge and reserve home to the big 5 and collectively the group saw 4 of the big 5 in 2 days... lion, buffalo, rhino, and leopard. We saw about 10 giraffe and loads of Nyala, Impala, Kudu, warthog, a croc, Zebra, and Wildebees and had a few days of chilling and drinking!!
 
Beautiful sunsets, hot days and freezing nights

The clouds had formed over the Ubombo Mountains to the left when we took off from Mkuze for home. Fortunately the sky was clear ahead.

Runway 35 Mkuze

In the skies over KwaZulu-Natal, our home Province

North coast coastline

The three planes bedded down for the nights LPL, ZDL and SAA

Richards Bay from the air

The view from Zulu Hills over the reserve

Sunset whilst on game drive


The waterhole at our lodge

Louis and Jeanette were Robert Redford and Meryl Streep in our Out of Africa adventure

Cheers on the game drive as we stop for a wine-stop!


On the game drive

Lee and Marc in the front seats


Wine stop


The baby croc at the waterhole will be moved when he gets a little bigger and wants to eat everything within reach

 

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