Day 9 - Addo Park

We started today on a dawn drive - a 5.30 start - but you need to be up early to catch the wildlife - and  we got up close and personal with elephants and a lion 

And even closer!!

This is a young male - it is actually grey but they blow dust over themselves to keep the insects away and for sunscreen

The guide found a lion - not one of the ones we saw last night - this one is carrying an injury on his leg - he's been scrapping with another lion over courting rites with a lady. The guide reckoned that he would not be the big cheese any more and would eventually be excluded from the pride.

We got quite close to this one as well!

After some breakfast and a spruce up we headed out again on our own for a few hours - we found water buffalo

Mum and baby warthogs

Ostrich 

A beautiful weever bird

And finally a Giant Volvo - almost extinct in the wild we were blessed to spot one of only three that still operate in the park.

We are just about wildlifed out now so this is our last night here before we move on to Pietermaritzburg  and looking forward to staying a few days with Lynda and Donald.