GAPS 3 - the Big Five!

On the POTN 'great African photo safari' this year we saw more and greater variety of wildlife than the previous two combined and we'd even cracked the famous 'Big Five' by the end of the second day in Kruger National Park! Over the 3 weeks we saw 25+ Lion, Elephant and Rhino as well as numerous Buffalo. However, as always, the Leopard remained elusive with only a single distant sighting.

Great series...I really like that elephant image. Well done!

Gotta love those rhinos!

Great shots -- looks like it was a fabulous trip.

Excellent series!

Flo wrote in post #8555064
Gotta love those rhinos!

They stood there staring for quite a while then the second one, with the long horn, suddenly wheeled right around and ran off, followed by the others.

jgrussell wrote in post #8555086
Great shots -- looks like it was a fabulous trip.

Cyclop wrote in post #8555210
Excellent series!

Cheers guys!

very nice

He / She may have been illusive but certainly spectacular.

In my two years living in SA and getting out as often as possible I still never got to see one

Great images, but I guess that is what we have come to expect

All very nice images, my pick is of the elephants.

Cheers guys ...

Neil, same here. I only saw my first wild Leopard in 2007. it's quite something.

Gautam, here's the next shot in the series.

I still prefer the one with three elephants.

Good stuff here too Dave! Looks like it was a great trip!

Wonderful shots Dave! I also really like the 1st Elephant shot.. something about the graduation of size. ... but I really love that final yawning Big Cat


You did very well this trip!

very nice, #5 was a shot most people will never get the chance todo,

you have a great collection

Excellent shots and I do like the 3 elephants but something about the lion just begs to be framed and mounted. To me it is the quintessential picture of Africa...that is having never been there except on Saturday mornings with Tarzan. Man, I think I just dated myself!