It’s a strange scene, but it’s home. I should prolly get that loudspeaker re-covered. And maybe get a stand made for them so that we can use those chairs again…

I avoided relistening to this for years, because I only remembered the silly stuff. But actually most of it is just genius songwriting and performance.

Traveling in comfort the 1980s way. Seen at a gas station outside Colesburg.

One more incident-free day insh’allah. The White Whale looks ready to take us the second half of the way across South Africa.

We won’t quite make it to Bloemfontein before dark. But there are compensations.

Johannesburg is the only true urban space in Africa - with blocks and blocks of towers so that you can walk for ages only seeing the sky as strips above your head. Other big cities like Lagos and Cairo are mostly flat sprawls.

Joburg does traffic… and weather… way more intensely than Cape Town. Soundtrack worked out nicely 😂.

White Fronted Bee Eater at Pafuri picnic area in the extreme North of the park. It’s our last day 😢 We saw a leopard in the dark just after leaving camp at 4:30am. And, later, very sad scenes of and impala ewe and two lambs stuck up to their necks in a pool of mud.

The vigilant herd matriarch. Elephant cows spend much of their time away from the large and unpredictable bulls. They form herds to raise their offspring led by these tough-as-nails older females that are ever watchful and have no patience for bullshit.

The smallest elephant in Kruger. This wee elephant is about the size of a dog. There was an incident this evening - where a teenage elephant pushed this baby over. The herd matriarch was pissed to say the least - screaming in anger. The whole herd rushed to see that the baby was ok. When it was back on its feet, a sibling or cousin not all that much bigger walked with its trunk draped over the little one to reassure it. Elephants are no gentle giants. But they look after their little ones.