http://gregspurgin.net/sa-to-sa/2015/02/04/lower-sabie-rest-camp-kruger-national-park/ Judy and Gregs travels through Southern Africa Sun, 01 Mar 2015 14:48:31 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.2.2 http://gregspurgin.net/sa-to-sa/2015/02/04/lower-sabie-rest-camp-kruger-national-park/#comment-136 Fri, 06 Feb 2015 10:16:29 +0000 http://gregspurgin.net/sa-to-sa/?p=221#comment-136 Ah, thanks for that Hazel. We’d better strike the wild dogs off our list and add hyena to it. We thought we hadn’t seen any hyenas.

]]> http://gregspurgin.net/sa-to-sa/2015/02/04/lower-sabie-rest-camp-kruger-national-park/#comment-134 Thu, 05 Feb 2015 23:29:48 +0000 http://gregspurgin.net/sa-to-sa/?p=221#comment-134 Your wild dogs look more like hyenas to me – wild dogs (Cape Hunting Dogs) in Kruger have big ears and don’t have the sloping back of hyenas. (There’s a Cape Hunting Dog in Kruger called ‘Hazel’ after me – he turned out to be a bloke!! I gave them some money towards an electric fence.)

]]> http://gregspurgin.net/sa-to-sa/2015/02/04/lower-sabie-rest-camp-kruger-national-park/#comment-132 Thu, 05 Feb 2015 05:53:19 +0000 http://gregspurgin.net/sa-to-sa/?p=221#comment-132 Nope, hyenas are different. One of our guide book has photos of 2 types of hyena – the Spotted Hyena and the brown hyena, which do look a bit loke dogs, but the African Wild Dog is a separate animal and much more ‘wolf-like’. Sorry, not enough internet data left to go and do a search.

]]> http://gregspurgin.net/sa-to-sa/2015/02/04/lower-sabie-rest-camp-kruger-national-park/#comment-131 Wed, 04 Feb 2015 23:02:07 +0000 http://gregspurgin.net/sa-to-sa/?p=221#comment-131 Sorry I think Char is right the wild dogs are Hyenas but I could be proven wrong which has happened to me before.

]]> http://gregspurgin.net/sa-to-sa/2015/02/04/lower-sabie-rest-camp-kruger-national-park/#comment-130 Wed, 04 Feb 2015 12:50:26 +0000 http://gregspurgin.net/sa-to-sa/?p=221#comment-130 We think he may have been a teensy bit tipsy, Char. I do like decay of vultures. Will try and use that in a sentence sometime. We keep seeing large birds hovering overhead, but can’t work out if they are vultures or eagles.
No, wild dogs and hyenas are different. Haven’t seen any hyenas yet, but the dogs we saw looked like small wolves, whereas I think hyenas are slighter in form

]]> http://gregspurgin.net/sa-to-sa/2015/02/04/lower-sabie-rest-camp-kruger-national-park/#comment-129 Wed, 04 Feb 2015 11:53:05 +0000 http://gregspurgin.net/sa-to-sa/?p=221#comment-129 What a great recap of the travels today. Fascinating stuff!
So was the elephant under the influence?
Maybe a decay of vultures.
Pardon my ignorance but are wild dogs Hyenas or is there a difference?

]]> http://gregspurgin.net/sa-to-sa/2015/02/04/lower-sabie-rest-camp-kruger-national-park/#comment-128 Wed, 04 Feb 2015 09:50:12 +0000 http://gregspurgin.net/sa-to-sa/?p=221#comment-128 Thanks Sal. I think my expectations of a bank in Kruger exchanging our pula were a bit high. They probably only offer to exchange foreign (ie- USD, GBP, euro, yen etc) currency for the tourists who fly in and fly out, ‘cos that campground/admin centre may be their first (and sometimes only) stop in Sth Africa.

]]> http://gregspurgin.net/sa-to-sa/2015/02/04/lower-sabie-rest-camp-kruger-national-park/#comment-127 Wed, 04 Feb 2015 09:15:36 +0000 http://gregspurgin.net/sa-to-sa/?p=221#comment-127 Such an interesting post Jude . Strange that they wouldn’t take the Pula when Botswana has a reasonably good economy .
I hope Swaziland is safe and the roads are acceptable x

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