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Second Visit to Kruger

About two weeks ago, we headed out with Ren and Patrick to let them experience the amazing animal encounters possible at the Kruger Game Park in South Africa. Although the second visit for Karen and I, we knew we would … Continue reading

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Awesome Elephant Encounter

On our second day at Kruger, Karen and Trisha took a nap after our sunrise safari walk. I decided to take the car out on a drive and see what I could find. I found some kudu, a couple of … Continue reading

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Leopard Found

We went out for our first night tour during our stay at Olifants camp. We had to use spotlights as we drove the roads in the dark. After 3 hours, we had found a number of animals (elephants, impala, giraffe, … Continue reading

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African Safari Walk

On Christmas Eve Day, we took a sunrise safari walk with two guides from Lataba Rest Camp in Kruger National Park. This was the first time we have taken a walk out in the wild like this and it was … Continue reading

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Pride of Lion at Night

While on our first visit to an African game park, we hired a guide for a night trip. They have large enclosed jeep-like vehicles with big windows and each row has a big spotlight we got to use. The highlight … Continue reading

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Photos of Wildlife from our First Africa Safaris

Last week, we took a three day break from the boat yard work to go on our first Africa safaris to see some wildlife. We teamed up with our friends Paul and Gina from s/v Solace and went first to … Continue reading

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Card Tournament

The crew of s/v Totem have a special card game variant of rummy that they have played in their family for a long time. They have started a tradition of playing tournaments with the crews of other boats each year. … Continue reading

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In Another World

I’m going to have one blog post on this topic, and it may bore some of you or make you say “there goes Frank doing some bizarre tech thing again”. But, I think it’s worth sharing. For one thing, this … Continue reading

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Tahina Part of Simulator Game!

For those who don’t know, in addition to writing our Tahina blog, I am also the publisher of Google Earth Blog (with an average of 6 million readers per year). I’m too busy with Tahina to write it on a … Continue reading

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