Addo Elephant Park 2010 Oct 2

We made a family visit to the Addo Elephant Park on Saturday. It was wonderful and exciting. The last time we visited the park we saw no elephants at all, but this time we had three separate sightings.
At one of the water pans we saw a herd of about twenty elephants come to drink, play in the water, roll in the mud and then walk off.
We also had two sightings of lions - it was good but in both cases they were just lying around not doing much and they were quite far from the road.





It was a great opportunity to test my new lens (75 - 300mm) and we all really enjoyed ourselves.
On our first trip to the park last year we didn't see a single elephant, but as you can see from the photos above, we saw plenty this time.
Here is a short video clip of a lone bull elephant that was drinking at a pan. We watched him for quite a long time.

When we visited the park in April 2009 we we caught in a hailstorm and some flooding. Check the floods here.
Now compare how dry it is in October 2010 - watch this video below and see what bone-dry looks like.

Hope you enjoyed this page about our trip to the Addo Elephant Park.