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SPECIAL PERKS

Some of the SPECIAL PERKS when booking a private game drive on the Green Mamba: A set of good rental binoculars for each guest to enhance their game drive experience and the newly installed red flood lights for exciting night drives under the stars!

The Green Mamba is my special game drive vehicle equipped to host photographers and anyone who would like a little extra luxury for their safari. The vehicle features a ‘Morning Nespresso/Cappuccino Bar’, an ‘Evening Martini Bar’, a 13″ Bird Book iPad with sound system and a lot of extra room for photographers to do ‘eye-level-photography’.

The Green Mamba is exclusively available to guests at Thanda Safari.

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Dinner was getting away!

This Zebra spotted two of our male Lions just in time before it was getting to close to these formidable carnivores.

The cats were not in hunting mode – as they still had a fairly full stomach from their last meal – but their killing instinct would have taken over if the Zebra would have gotten to close.

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European Roller – close up!

This is a video clip of a European Roller taken with my iPhone 12 Pro Max this evening. The bird was very relaxed and I was able to drive up to approx 2.5 meters (8 feet). I love its colors!

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The LARGEST and the SMALLEST!

I was very lucky to get this shot of Thanda Safari’s largest and smallest Elephant crossing the road together.

We tracked Ellies from the early morning throughout the day and we finally got them in the open around three in the afternoon.

A very enjoyable Long-Nose-Day!

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A lucky pig!

This evening I took this picture of two young Thanda Lionesses chasing a Warthog. The pig got away and the two ladies had to continue their hunt for dinner.

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I love my home …

… no more words are needed!

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Colors

Red-spectrum sunsets are very beautiful, but sometime other interesting colors appear once the sun disappear behind the horizon. Enjoy your weekend!

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A special Cheetah operation!

Yesterday I was able to participate and photo-document a very special operation. A specialist surgeon operated on one of our male Cheetah to ‘re-build’ a torn ligament in the cat’s left leg.

During the procedure I was sitting in a good photo position behind the large carnivore and I was assigned an additional job. Every few minutes I had to tickle inside the Cheetah’s ear to see if there was any reaction like twitching or growling. That way the vet could judge if more drugs were needed to keep the cat asleep. A very special task not part of my usual job description!

Pictures:

1 – The Cheetah and I

2 – Waiting for the surgeon

3 – Pre-Op, asleep and ready for surgery

4 – X-Ray in the bush

5 – The surgery begins

6 – Post-Op, just before wake-up

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A Lucky Day

Yesterday was a very lucky day. I had two beautiful snake sightings and was able to take two good pictures.

The first sighting was a Spotted Bush Snake moving (hunting) up a staircase with an Nyala bull having a drink in the background.

The second sighting was a Puff Adder resting in the middle of the road gathering the warms from the road. I guided this one to safely of the road, so it would not get run over.

What a lucky, snakey day!

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