{"id":43,"date":"2005-07-21T17:53:20","date_gmt":"2005-07-21T17:53:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/africaexplorer.org\/new\/?p=43"},"modified":"2012-03-09T19:56:21","modified_gmt":"2012-03-09T19:56:21","slug":"21st-july-2005","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/africaexplorer.org\/?p=43","title":{"rendered":"21st July 2005"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We have been in Etosha now for 9 days staying at each of the three camps. It is a simply stunning place to see game.<\/p>\n<p>For example we have seen:<\/p>\n<p><strong>*\u00a0<\/strong>Herd of 26\u00a0<strong>Elephant<\/strong>\u00a0at Kalkhuewl<br \/>\n<strong>*\u00a0<\/strong>A lone\u00a0<strong>Lioness<\/strong>\u00a0eating a giraffe carcass at Klein Namutoni<br \/>\n<strong>*\u00a0<\/strong>Literally hundreds of\u00a0<strong>Zebra<\/strong>\u00a0crossing the track at Okerfontein<br \/>\n<strong>*\u00a0<\/strong>An\u00a0<strong>African Wild Cat<\/strong>\u00a0at Kalkhuewl which jumped into the air from the top of an Acacia to catch birds<br \/>\n<strong>*\u00a0<\/strong>20\u00a0<strong>Giraffe<\/strong>\u00a0at Klein Namutoni mouring the death of the one refered to above<br \/>\n<strong>*\u00a0<\/strong><strong>Red hartebeest<\/strong>\u00a0at Springfontein<br \/>\n<strong>*\u00a0<\/strong><strong>Nyalas<\/strong>\u00a0(a bit like Kudu) at Goas<br \/>\n<strong>*\u00a0<\/strong>Enormous herds of\u00a0<strong>Black-faced Impala<\/strong>\u00a0at Goas<br \/>\n<strong>*\u00a0<\/strong><strong>Eland<\/strong>\u00a0at Goas<br \/>\n<strong>*\u00a0<\/strong><strong>Black Rhino<\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0<strong>spotted Hyena<\/strong>\u00a0at Moringa<br \/>\n<strong>*\u00a0<\/strong>2 young male\u00a0<strong>Lions<\/strong>\u00a0at Salvadora hunting\u00a0<strong>Zebra<\/strong>\u00a0(rather inexpertly!)<br \/>\n<strong>*\u00a0<\/strong>20\u00a0<strong>Giraffe<\/strong>\u00a0at Klein Namutoni mouring the death of the one refered to above<br \/>\n<strong>*\u00a0<\/strong>Enormous herds of\u00a0<strong>Black-faced Impala<\/strong>\u00a0at Goas<br \/>\n<strong>*\u00a0<\/strong>30+\u00a0<strong>Elephant<\/strong>\u00a0at Rjetfontein<br \/>\n<strong>*\u00a0<\/strong>5\u00a0<strong>Black Rhino<\/strong>\u00a0at Moringa including two suckling calves<br \/>\n<strong>*\u00a0<\/strong><strong>Leopard<\/strong>\u00a0on the road from Halali to Goas which we watched for around 30 minutes<br \/>\n<strong>*\u00a0<\/strong>4\u00a0<strong>Lions<\/strong>\u00a0near Salvadora on a ridge<br \/>\n<strong>*\u00a0<\/strong>50+\u00a0<strong>Oryx (Gemsbok)<\/strong>\u00a0at Nebrownii<br \/>\n<strong>*\u00a0<\/strong>A\u00a0<strong>Rhino<\/strong>, 3\u00a0<strong>Lions\u00a0<\/strong>and an\u00a0<strong>Elelphant<\/strong>all together at Nebrownii<br \/>\n<strong>*\u00a0<\/strong>No less than 9\u00a0<strong>Rhino<\/strong>\u00a0and 3\u00a0<strong>Lions\u00a0<\/strong>hunting a\u00a0<strong>Giraffe<\/strong>which escaped (only just!)<br \/>\n<strong>*\u00a0<\/strong>90-100\u00a0<strong>Elelphant<\/strong>\u00a0at the aptly named Olifantsbad<\/p>\n<p>Not a bad roll call eh?!<\/p>\n<p>The photo highlights will have to wait for better bandwidth for upload (probably South Africa in a few weeks time) as even the thumbnails of the highlights are 500 kilobytes and that just isnt practical!<\/p>\n<p>On to the Skeleton Coast soon, more news then&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We have been in Etosha now for 9 days staying at each of the three camps. It is a simply stunning place to see game. For example we have seen: *\u00a0Herd of 26\u00a0Elephant\u00a0at Kalkhuewl *\u00a0A lone\u00a0Lioness\u00a0eating a giraffe carcass at Klein Namutoni *\u00a0Literally hundreds of\u00a0Zebra\u00a0crossing the track at Okerfontein *\u00a0An\u00a0African Wild Cat\u00a0at Kalkhuewl which jumped [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-namibia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/africaexplorer.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/africaexplorer.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/africaexplorer.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/africaexplorer.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/africaexplorer.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=43"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/africaexplorer.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/africaexplorer.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/africaexplorer.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/africaexplorer.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}