[Raphael]

Yay we made it over the hill

[Raphael]

Now for some lunch. Fancy some veld grass my dear?

[Raphael]

One of the more common and well known African animals, the Zebra

[Raphael]

A small herd of Zebra.

And important thing to remember about the zebra, despite what the Swiss Family Robinson might lead us to beleive, you cannot ride a zebra like you ride a horse. A zebra may look like a stripey horse, but it isn't one.

SO DON'T EVER TRY RIDE A ZEBRA.

[nix]

Ooooohhhh... look mommy, it's a zeeeeeeeeeeeeeebra

You have made me homesick!!! NAUGHTY BOY!!!

Did you take those pics yourself??

[Raphael]

One of my work collegues, Carmen, took them.

I'm borrowing the work digital camera this weekend, so possibly I can add some more.

Also my mate Warren went to the umfolozi and he took some kewl pics of elephant, rhino warthogs etc. I'll get them from him next week and post them as well.

[HeIsRisenIndeed]

I just wanted to say that somehow ending up here, looking at these pictures has inspired me to travel, and come to Africa. thaaaannnkkss.....lol. It is a BEAUTIFUL country. I once also thought it would be dry. wow.

[timio]

I'm making a little photo montage for the end of my presentation on South Africa (which is on Tuesday... UGH!!!)... Mind if I steal a few of these pics for it?

[nix]

I don't see why not.go ahead!!

[Grasshopper359]

It's not really a picture of Africa, but it is an African animal. The cap badge of the Royal Canadian Dragoons is of a leaping springbok.

[Raphael]

Sure Timio, go ahead and steal 'em. They not copyrighted or anything (infact the person who took the pics is sitting two metres away from me).

I'll also be getting some pics of some of the big five a friend of mine took at the umfolozi.

Kyle, that emblem is disturbingly similar to the Springboks Emblem

[Raphael]

Right, now for some more. This next lot are all from the Umfolozi-Hluhluwe Game Reserve. It's going to take me quite a while to post all of them, there are 108 pics, some are duplicates. I'll have to resize most of them (if you want the big pics pm me your email addy.)

I was going to post a avi of a rhino sharpening it's horn, but the file size was to big.

BUT here is a pic of an Elephant.

(This entire series of pics in the Umfolozi was taken by a friend of mine, Warren Harvey.)

[Raphael]

The same elephant, He's now a bit camera shy (all these paparrazzi types wandering around taking pics of him )

[Raphael]

Now he started turning to offer us his side profile.

[nix]

That first one is cool of the elephant....huge thing I tell ya!!!