Gaurang,

Your trip must have been amazing I think. I am very curious to read all about it and to see the rest of your pictures.

I am dying to go there again ...

Best regards,

Johan

Hi Gaurang (U r some lucky guy !)
Was the Pangolin seen during a night drive ??

I remember years ago, at the University in jo'burg, there was a kind of a poster saying:
Headline: <b> &quot;There are only 5 Pangolins left (in the Kruger Park&quot; </b>
then second line smaller letters:
&quot;Can anyone prove otherwise ??&quot;
then a whole article ...
I was lucky enough to see it in Kruger Park during day time (very cloudy dark day). got out of my car &amp; ran to it. as it curled i couldn't help touch it
(don't tell anyone) - i was more than ready to pay the fine had a ranger seen me...

aby

Johan (U2 have got some excellent relations with the goddess of luck...)

Can you gather ta list of links for your photos (some under your previous nick)?
Since IMO, yours r probably the best pictures i've seen on this forum

aby
PS how can i send you some comments on your photography ?

seriously some AWESOME luck!!!

Hari

Aby,

I am glad you like my pictures. At the moment, I removed all of them on the different websites (Kodak Gallery - Aardvark - ...).

I'll be planning to do something special after my 3 safaris next year because it will be my last year of extensively going to Botswana. You just have to be a bit patient.

Best regards,

Johan

Johan,

I'm very surprised that red letchwe were missing in one of your camps.....they seemed to be around every other corner in the wilderness of Botswana.

Cheers,
Hari

Hi Guys
What a nice and enjoyable thread to read. I would like to keep it going so I have a proposal. Everyone is always talking about the leopards, lions, wild dogs, etc they saw but what about the smaller nocturnal animals that never get mentioned like the Bat-Eared Fox, the African Wildcat, Porcupine, etc all seen on night drives.
Folks, lets read about the smaller creatures you've seen on night drives. Anyone ever hold a cameleon in their hands or picked up a nightjar?
Mark

Aby....yes the pangolin was seen on a night drive, waiting at the side of the road. Every Lebala vehicle raced to the sighting. We spent 30 minutes with it. All of the guides performed a traditional ritual by touching the pangolin and then touching their head - it is meant to be very lucky. One guide even knelt on the ground and bowed to the pangolin, touching the pangolin with his head, followed by a traditional song and dance.

Even I touched the pangolin - Mark how does that rate for a night drive experience?

Gaurang

Hari,

I missed the red lechwe at Chitabe Trails.

Greetz,

Johan

Chameleons and nightjars are not unknown to me at all. The only problem I got with nightjars, is that they are not easy to identify.

Best sighting I had during a night drive this year, was a serval kitten at Lebala.

Gaurang,

That sighting of a pangolin must have been something. I am sure Spencer, Charles and Thabo gonna tell me all about it next year.

Greetz,

Johan

Hi Johan

I was with Vundi (new guide) at the time and our tracker Julias spotted it. Thabo and Charles were 30 minutes away when we told them by radio (we were 5 minutes from Lebala and they were beyond the airstrip). We still don't know what was more amazing - the pangolin or the fact that Thabo and Charles made it to the sighting in 10 MINUTES!!!! Spencer was on leave when I was there.

Regards

Gaurang

Hi Gaurang,

So....you must just have to return to Lebala when the man is not on leave!!!

Hari