According to my father, we will be home in 168 hours....

Well folks - it is coming up super soon! But we still have a few days of play left in this country before we turn our focus to coming home. We are back in South Africa and I am actually writing from a famous surf town - Jeffery's Bay (it was featured in the movie The Endless Summer). The surf conditions are not great for sad Jay, but we will try again tomorrow. So, we are heading north to Addo Elephant National Park for the day and night.
As for the remainder of our trip up north, it was GREAT. We had two amazing days in Kruger National Park....sadly I don't have my best photos up yet from that part of the trip....so these OK pics will have to do for now. Our favorite sighting?? Watching three hyenas gorge on a fresh kill at night. It was a bone-crunching and munching experience. The birds of the park were incredible - lots of eagles, rollers, hornbills, owls, vultures, weavers, spoonbills, etc. They were a real highlight for both of us. We also saw three male lions guarding a giant carcass of a black rhino (although no one knows if they killed it, but they were certainly watching over it when three hungry ground hornbills approached). What else? Elephants with their tiny tiny calves all around our overland truck. Giraffes, buffalo, crocs, graceful antelope of many species... the list goes on and on.
There is so much more to tell, but damn, the internet is expensive here and we have more elephants to see! So, I will have to save some of those stories for face-to-face meetings with friends and family. We can't wait.

Buffalo herd

Hippos

Tawny eagle

My favorite large mammal in Africa (I feel like a giraffe sometimes)