Day 283 May 15 2015 Lower Sabie Rest Camp Kruger National Park South Africa

checking out the crocodiles and hippos

looking for lions

a klipspringer

at a view point on the way to Lower Sabie

enjoying the break from being in the car

some of the first rhinos of the trip

Day 283  May 15 2015  Lower Sabie Rest Camp  Kruger National Park  South Africa

We drove from Satara to Lower Sabie taking mainly gravel roads.  The driving distance was about 150 km but it took from 10 am to 5:20 pm as we were driving slow most of the way.  The new animals of the day were white rhinos and klipspringer.  The female and male klipspringer took turns jumping onto a rock really close to the passenger window to pose for a picture.  We also saw a massive herd of buffalo, there had to be more than 500 of them.  We stopped at one of the best view points we have been to in Kruger.  It was overlooking the reservoir of the Orpen dam and we saw 2 baby hippos on the bank and many large hippos eating in the water.  There were also many crocodiles both on the bank and in the river.  There were also birds, elephant, buffalo and impala.  In the night the kids went swimming in the pool then we dropped large ants onto a nest of small ants and watched them attack and eat the large ones.  It was interesting to see how a tiny ant would grab the leg of the big ant and hold him until reinforcements came and overwhelmed the large ant eventually killing it.