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Speed Safari - Organised Travel in Southern Africa (Pt IV)

  
 

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August 3rd 2007
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Just after we crossed over the Orange River and back into South Africa, we came across a springbok in the road. Its instinct to run had no doubt served it well in the past, but with wire fences either side, an escape plan based on trying to run down a road faster than the Mercedes truck that was following it was doomed to failure. After a few minutes in this unlikely chase the driver was eventuall... Read Full Entry



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15th August 2007

San
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Nice pics!
Like your pics a lot. Do you use a sky filter for the lanscape shots? Great picture story on the elephant mum/ baby crossing....
15th August 2007

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Thanks for your comments. I like really deep blue skies so I have a polarising filter on the wide angle lens. I have read that this is not really recommended because these lenses are so wide that you can never get an even effect across the width of the picture. That's certainly the case with many if not all the landscape pictures I took, but I don't find it too disagreeable.
19th February 2008

Euan
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Softening the blow...
Creased me up yet again! Truck side abuse from Oz... I had to stop my work & reread it...
4th March 2008

Wilma
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Safari company
That's a great blog... very detailed. I enjoyed reading it. Which safari company did you travel with?
10th March 2008

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Thanks. The company was Explore! They did a good job and I have no real complaints about them. I do think we were fortunate to have half the numbers that they would have liked, but I suspect that would be true of any tour like this.

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