tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-49826109784793111892024-02-02T17:54:01.306+01:00Knut Arne NygårdShort updates and photos from our nature; mammals & birds; travel. To inspire a better protection of the nature of the world!Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger12125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4982610978479311189.post-40283592571676956292023-09-12T17:58:00.009+02:002023-09-12T18:15:35.780+02:00Instagram / YouTube 2023<blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0 0 0 40px; padding: 0px;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0 0 0 40px; padding: 0px;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0 0 0 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="text-align: left;"> <span style="text-align: center;"> My YouTube: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/@knutarnenygard">https://www.youtube.com/@knutarnenygard</a></span> </p></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0 0 0 40px; padding: 0px;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0 0 0 40px; padding: 0px;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0 0 0 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="text-align: center;">My Instagram: </span><a href="https://www.instagram.com/knutarnenygard/?hl=nb" style="text-align: center;">https://www.instagram.com/knutarnenygard/</a></p></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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Unedited (Pixel 5).</div><p style="text-align: center;">En nydelig tåkete soloppgang en vintermorgen. Uredigert (Pixel 5)</p><p style="text-align: center;">Sanvika, Norway, dec 2021</p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="329" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/LPYFvB-ZFVY" width="476" youtube-src-id="LPYFvB-ZFVY"></iframe></div><p style="text-align: center;">My first ever YouTube video - a Eurasian Red Squirrel at my bird feeding station. /</p><p style="text-align: center;">Min aller første YouTube video, den ble av et ekorn på foringsplassen.</p><p style="text-align: center;">Holmestrand, Norway, jan 2022</p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgXC-tQ-Y88vwQ9gZ1ClJd63g_3y2ubEQV3WgJBycU5dR1kVHp2mOZHMhN6o1Sic0KyUf0e65vCl-XY613uHHmnAI-VCdLS-DtCi0mj7XdFEHUP_wd3CziJKHiNuxr1z7Z0E65OrJiTI6uKX9MBxNUDac8Gpjlj2iYpYySBoKHtEQCRPqTlepyhj65hHA=s1180" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1180" data-original-width="1180" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgXC-tQ-Y88vwQ9gZ1ClJd63g_3y2ubEQV3WgJBycU5dR1kVHp2mOZHMhN6o1Sic0KyUf0e65vCl-XY613uHHmnAI-VCdLS-DtCi0mj7XdFEHUP_wd3CziJKHiNuxr1z7Z0E65OrJiTI6uKX9MBxNUDac8Gpjlj2iYpYySBoKHtEQCRPqTlepyhj65hHA=w640-h640" width="640" /></a></div><p style="text-align: center;"><b>Mrs Goulds Sunbird</b> / <i>Aethopyga gouldiae</i> / Purpurkronesolfugl</p><p style="text-align: center;">Not my sharpest photo..., but what a bueatiful bird! / </p><p style="text-align: center;">Ikke mitt skarpeste bilde..., men for en vakker fugl !!</p><p style="text-align: center;">Da Lat, Assam, Vietnam, mar 2011</p>Knut Arnehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06648037275845470529noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4982610978479311189.post-88044120802972977172021-01-23T10:44:00.016+01:002022-01-23T21:43:48.684+01:00Instagram photo / foto 2021<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">uMkhuze Game Reserve, part of iSamangaliso WP / WHS, Kwazulu-Natal, South-Africa, 2009</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjTDRQICWeucQIlHyzlCqIvzpRK_5H8f9D8Vo-cW4hbgVlV6-SLoq0eT7SKQ3qLxE6afMFWBSLUuW4o93nvBVPPjiNiTd81m_G3myTFvHAAuWSI2j0ZKvO8cvml0RzQjuZen9Xjhf7vznnFOmBB5YdR_5xl9NrVixaANm22ls2dx6Vaqv_SydgpJP-sxA=s614" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="614" data-original-width="614" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjTDRQICWeucQIlHyzlCqIvzpRK_5H8f9D8Vo-cW4hbgVlV6-SLoq0eT7SKQ3qLxE6afMFWBSLUuW4o93nvBVPPjiNiTd81m_G3myTFvHAAuWSI2j0ZKvO8cvml0RzQjuZen9Xjhf7vznnFOmBB5YdR_5xl9NrVixaANm22ls2dx6Vaqv_SydgpJP-sxA=w640-h640" width="640" /></a></div><b>Common Linnet </b>/ <i>Carduelis cannabina </i>/ Tornirisk<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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text-align: center;"><br /></div>Mølen, Asker, Norway, 2015<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjeBcp28Jgb03gue4-2KTKMmIqxj_6ZsTYe5Ehv6f8f-lcpyBG_CWScYWvOMWT1eNJB5zUHOzqQ7KYIUk2aHwy8W_emVWs_w6i0zP4ZcyFJ48N-NTGolnvCOAWS2kssjr8GYoeQI2dN6TMDh-EVaSE3Estw_o8g_SHm6AsI2ZEFLPUEAe1L0SyWeyBEUg=s1752" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1752" data-original-width="1752" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjeBcp28Jgb03gue4-2KTKMmIqxj_6ZsTYe5Ehv6f8f-lcpyBG_CWScYWvOMWT1eNJB5zUHOzqQ7KYIUk2aHwy8W_emVWs_w6i0zP4ZcyFJ48N-NTGolnvCOAWS2kssjr8GYoeQI2dN6TMDh-EVaSE3Estw_o8g_SHm6AsI2ZEFLPUEAe1L0SyWeyBEUg=w640-h640" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b>Mandarin Duck</b> / <i>Aix galericulata</i> / Mandarinand</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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text-align: center;"><b>Eastern Black-and-white Colobus</b> / Guereza</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div>Lake Naivasha, Rift Valley, kenya, 2012</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhrAbFDPvr9jIWsgULM1FsXgZKelJcv7Ng8_OtvBfQoRwjtg-el0cXRXh3aQnlLibLsNNmpOj0equ2Htstcvu6XPwxoqmbVbucUEuQpiSgei7InMvsUChbZUmSx1DsgNSpXljvyHKUJS_3dTb8w9lg6oIiN743DA44mDP3siroqX3jvqmK6MK3Vu0mwpw=s1201" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1201" data-original-width="1201" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhrAbFDPvr9jIWsgULM1FsXgZKelJcv7Ng8_OtvBfQoRwjtg-el0cXRXh3aQnlLibLsNNmpOj0equ2Htstcvu6XPwxoqmbVbucUEuQpiSgei7InMvsUChbZUmSx1DsgNSpXljvyHKUJS_3dTb8w9lg6oIiN743DA44mDP3siroqX3jvqmK6MK3Vu0mwpw=w640-h640" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b>Snowy Egret</b> / Snøhegre / <i>Egretta thula</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Lilltle Estero Lagoon area, Fort Myers Beach, Florida, USA, 2012</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEioZNY4ewRuA4B_0oS7jMQh8v3qo3oxKUsdO85jzbNtChMpc7Fg2MiJpKwBJQlc3rWuYhPFlQSVNp9xcJUXpNDrjBMoyDmAaBUJH7PKzfNoQh8jSV17fafaUiyf_QmFI5jYQi8TV2t1BHWp/s4032/PXL_20210115_115710286.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEioZNY4ewRuA4B_0oS7jMQh8v3qo3oxKUsdO85jzbNtChMpc7Fg2MiJpKwBJQlc3rWuYhPFlQSVNp9xcJUXpNDrjBMoyDmAaBUJH7PKzfNoQh8jSV17fafaUiyf_QmFI5jYQi8TV2t1BHWp/w640-h480/PXL_20210115_115710286.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Real old-fashioned winter / ordentlig gammeldags vinter / -15 degrees C</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Vestskauen, Sande i Vestfold og Telemark, Norge (Norway), jan 2021</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Actually there was a dipper living in this stream / Det var faktisk en fossekall i denne lille elva !</div><br /> <p></p>Knut Arnehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06648037275845470529noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4982610978479311189.post-14949590466930546332020-12-16T22:57:00.011+01:002021-01-23T10:33:08.171+01:00Instagram photo / foto - 2020<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Below is some pictures from the small National Park at Lake Nakuru, located centrally in the Rift Vallay basin in Western Kenya. A small real Africa experience!<br />
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The road from Nairobi is heavy trafficked, and you will as well pass exciting parks like Nairobi National Park (close to the airport!), Lake Naivasha (freshwater), Hells Gate National Park and Aberdare National Park. So if you have a week, a lot of unique African nature is available in a very concentrated area.<br />
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The area is freightening small, and circles aroud the small Lake Nakuru. The Main gate to the park is litterally in the city of Nakuru, a quite typical kenyan railway station town. The lake itself is saline, with no outlet! Three creeks/rivers enter the lake, that might fluctuate. The old main gate (2012) was under water in 2015, and a new receptiona area is raised on the hill behild the lake.<br />
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Lake Nakuru National Parke is part of a UNESCO World Heritage Site covering the Rift Valley lakes.<br />
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Depending on budget, the preferred place to stay is Lion Hill Lodge, situated in the northern hills of the park. Here they have bird feeders as well as one of the better lodge restaurants in Kenya. The lodge is inside the park, but fenced in so it is a safe and exiting place!<br />
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The small park have mot classical african mammals well known from the savannas further south. Here you can find both rhino species, giraffe, buffalo, hippo, zebra, antilope species and over 400 species of birds! Lion and leopards may occor. But there are no elephants!<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 12.8px;"><b>Rising water flooding the southern side of the park, Lake Nakuru NP, Kenya, 2015</b></td></tr>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4982610978479311189.post-18267992964390731812017-10-20T21:44:00.000+02:002017-10-20T21:44:25.317+02:00Cabo San Lucas, Baja California Sur, MexicoCabo San Lucas, at "Worlds End", the southernmost tip of the Baja California peninsula, is a great place. A small village, with a few too big hotels, and beaches all around the place. And a lot of wilderness beyond.<br />
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Below are some pictures from our holiday in Cabo San Lucas, in november 2004. Some changes will have happened, but these pictures gives some relevant views of this great place! And how it was then.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 12.8px;"><b>Lands End, from the bushland behind the long city beach, Cabo San Lucas, 2004</b></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 12.8px;"><b>The city beach, with city center to the left, and the new Riu still not opened, Cabo San Lucas, 2004</b></td></tr>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4982610978479311189.post-21354796983128334312017-10-01T10:16:00.002+02:002017-10-02T07:16:27.656+02:00Little Estero Critical Wildlife Area, Florida, USAIf you wonder how you may combine a super beach holiday in Florida with some sparetime birding, Fort Myers Beach may be the place! Especially seabirds and wetlandbirds are plentiful in the lagoons a bit south on the Island. And inside the island, a boattrip will provide mangroves and well wooded areas to complement the seaside experience<br />
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Fort Myers Beach is a long island dominated by a huge seaside beach, just outside the city of Fort Myers, on the gulf-coast of Florida. A few hours drive west of Orlando. The Island has a bridge to mainland Fort Myers in north, and another connection southward at the southern tip. If you follow the beach or drives south, you will easily find Little Estero Lagoon, breaking up the beach with mangroves, dams and more banks than beach in the south.<br />
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Little Estero Lagoon is a small peaceful place in a sea of hotels, appartements, tourists, and beaches. The banks further out differs a lot at low tide versus high tide, but the banks and channels attract a lot of birds. And some areas are actually closed of in the breeding season to pretect the birds.<br />
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The area ha a lot of waterfowl: herons, waders, gulls, terns and the skimmer. I think we actually had eight different heron-species, some of them pictured below! Above you might see the Bald Eagles and Ospreys. And in the boat-harbors there are manatees with with boat-propeller tracks over their back...<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 12.8px;"><b>Willet, common on the beach, Ft Myers Beach, FL, USA, 2012</b></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 12.8px;"><b>Sanderlings, as well on migration north, Ft Myers Beach, FL, USA, 2012</b></td></tr>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4982610978479311189.post-76880525221360472052017-09-02T07:36:00.000+02:002017-09-02T07:47:44.549+02:00Burleigh Head National Park, Queensland, AustraliaBurleigh Head is a very small and busy National Park, keeping some ancient biotopes intact in the southern headland of Gold Coast south of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. Here is ocean, surfers, stony and sandy beaches, rainforest, eucalyptys woods and an estuary. On a very small plot with even a road crossing.<br />
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The area is easy accessible and well<br />
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Området er lett tilgjengelig og godt tilrettelagt for besøkende, inklusive parkeringsplass på både nordsiden og sørsiden. Det er mye folk i området på godt merkede stier gjennom krattskog ytterst mot havet og gjennom regnskogen lenger inn og på toppen.<br />
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Linken nedenfor gir en pekepinn om artsrikdommen i området, men det er ikke lett å oppdage mange av disse på et par korte turer gjennom området. Vi bodde bare 10 meter fra parkens grenser, og det er et rikt fugleliv i hele området, også utenfor parken!<br />
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Er du på Gold Coast sør for Brisbane er denne parken absolutt verdt et besøk, men det er større og flottere parker både nordover langs kysten og innover i landet. Vi kan legge til at Burleigh Head er en liten landsby også, og at området er et strålende sted å bo under et opphold i området!<br />
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Link til parkens hjemmesider, med linker for artslister:<br />
<a href="http://www.nprsr.qld.gov.au/parks/burleigh-head/" target="_blank">http://www.nprsr.qld.gov.au/parks/burleigh-head/</a><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Looking north from the North Gate, towards Surfers Paradise and Gold Coast</b></span></td></tr>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4982610978479311189.post-39884590749206397632017-08-15T21:45:00.000+02:002017-08-20T18:56:31.992+02:00Kruger National Park, South AfricaOur first trip to Africa south of Sahara was to South-Africa, visiting the North-East as well as the Cape Town area. The first week in this trip in 2005 concentrated around a four day visit in Kruger National Park (KNP). Our next travel to South Africa and Kruger National Park was in 2009, and again the first week had four days set aside for a visit to the park. Our experience about the park is based upon these two visits (even though planning for a third trip is in its beginning).<br />
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KNP is a large National Park, four hundred kilometers long (from south to north), traversing Mpumalanga and Limpopo. I will start describing my favourites from north to south.<br />
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The northern border of the park is the Limpopo river, and up here you feel the sub-tropical climate and will se birds hard to see anywhere else in South-Africa. Places like Crooks Corner (with view to Mozambique and Zimbabwe), and Pafuri area with Luvuvhu River, is one of my favourite experiences in Kruger. Dense woodland, flowing water and warm humid air makes this a really nice place, totally different from the park further south (dominated by savanna).<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Nyala, at Pafuri Camp Site on the Luvuvhu River, 2009</b></span></td></tr>
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Punda Maria is a camp in the north, situated on a hill. It's a small, intimate old-fashioned camp, with a great water-hole experience. I liked the stay here, again due to climate. The night drive was very nice in here, you really feel being in an isolotaed place in the low hilly landscape around the camp (even though we are close to the park border). And the sunset (and sunrise) at the waterhole gives you close contact (and photo-opportunities) with animals and birds.<br />
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Shingwedzi is the next major camp south. Not a very special camp (to me), but again a traditional camp with 'old' atmosphere. The wildlife along the river is great.<br />
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Mopani is in the mopani bush area, favourite food for the elephants. The camp is on top of a hill, and the terrace has a wonderful view over Pioneer Dam, a large (artificial) waterbody bringing a lot of life to the view (and shorebirds).<br />
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Letaba is another favourite. It's located along the Letaba River, and the view over the river from the banks as it turns below is great. The view is unfenced, and the closeness to the more open wilderness is really felt. The river area (mostly sandbars in the summer) teams with life of all kinds coming and going back into the bush in the background. And in the dark - just listen to Africans sounds! The camp contains as well the park's Elephant Museum, a really nice place to see how big the great bulls, and their tusks, once became!<br />
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The next river, and major camp, is the Olifants, The Olifants river runs deeper in the rocky tarrain, completely different to the others up north. Great views are provided over the river and ravine, both from the camp, bridge and other lookouts. As Letaba River, the Olifants crosses Kruger west to east end runs into Mozambique. There are some really nice places (and hides) along Olifants downstream.<br />
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Now we are entering the highest part of the Kruger, and the most open savanna in the park. The Satara camp is in the middle of the area, in a hot summerday maybe too much so (longing for the breeze along the rivers). The camp is quite large, and not very exiting, but of course the savanna is. This is one of the best parts of the park to actually see the large cats, leopards climbing into the few large trees on the plains.<br />
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Not much to say about the main camp in Kruger, the Skukuza camp and headquarter is very close to the civilization.... But the remains of the railway-bridge into the area bear witnesses to the fact that a park may be about taking the nature back.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 13px;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">Our first lion view ! Along Sabi River below Skukuza, 2005.</span></b><br />
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The road down along Sabie River to Lower Sabie camp gives back the "tropical" feeling. More trees and vegetation gives a greener impression, more birds, but less (harder to see) animals. The road follows the river woodlands, contributing to the feeling. Getting down to the camp, the view over the river from the restaurant area is fantastic, actually mostly wetlands (broad extension of the river).<br />
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Crossing Crocodile river further south, leaving the park, is a strange "return to civilisation" experience, immediatly missing the wilderness feeling in the park. That initiates immediately a thought on when will we be back next time. The plan is, november 2017!<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>White Pelicans, Sabie area, 2005</b></span> </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">Saddle-billed Stork, Sabie area, 2005</span></b></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">Lonely bull, African Savanna Elephant, 2005</span></b></td></tr>
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4982610978479311189.post-17759766294398125762017-08-12T22:39:00.003+02:002017-08-13T08:42:53.098+02:00Cat Tien National Park, Vietnam<span style="background-color: white; color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Cat Tien NP is most infamous for having the last Java Rhino of the south-asian subspesiec. Shot into pieces, probably by its caretakers, in october 2010, four month before our visit. It was simply permanently EXTINCT! </span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">That said, it was just a great place. Accomodation was below western standards, but you just do not care, living in this wilderness is just great. And the birdlife was terrific. All common and rare rainforest species may be found, but it is hard work and a lot of waiting, walking or just sitting. And it might reveal the greatest and most colorful experience.</span></span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Arrival at Cat Tien's main tourist entry, by ferry crossing the river, Cat Tien NP, 2011</b></span></td></tr>
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Some pictures from our visit to Cat Tien National Park in 2011 (five month after South-east Asias last Rhino was shot to extinction in this park...!):<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Crocodile Lake, it takes a 5 km hike through the rainforest to get here, Cat Tien NP, 2011</b></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption"><b><span style="font-size: small;">Giant tree, along the hike to Crocodile Lake, Cat Tien NP, 2011</span></b></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption"><b><span style="font-size: small;">Great view from tourist balcony on the park border river, Cat Tien NP, 2011</span></b></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption"><b><span style="font-size: small;">Little Spiderhunter, after a crash into a window, flying away in minutes, Cat Tien NP, 2011</span></b></td></tr>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4982610978479311189.post-77523264819425535182017-08-05T07:17:00.000+02:002017-08-12T19:20:26.545+02:00Etosha National Park, NamibiaEtosha..., just taste on the word, the name gives an aura of african mystisism and wilderness! Rarely have we been looking more forward to arrive to a new place - and our high expectations were almost met!<br />
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The Etosha park is dominated by the enormous salt pan centrally in the park, which is holding one quarter of the parks area. The park itself is as big as Vermont State in USA if we count in the new extension towards the Atlantic sea which recently became open to visitors. In addition to that - most areas (except north of the park) has a very low human population, and the wilderness continue beyond the park. But the park itself has the waterholes who really attracts wildlife.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">Dry and hot! The Lions are guarding the waterhole, outside Okaukuejo Camp, Etosha NP, Namibia 2012</span></b></td></tr>
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The word Etosha has its origin among the local tribe languages - and is translated as "the great white place". It clearly refers to the salt-pan itself, which is as big it can be seen from space! The area beyond the pan is first dry savanna, slowly moving into bushveld and even woodland to north and east and along the few watercourses.<br />
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The animal life of the area is rich and easily available. Due to the areas dryness, animals as well as most birds will congregate at the waterholes for daily water and survival, at least in the dry season (there might be some rain in january - march timeframe). Africas Big 5 and other attractive game are present, and it's the first place i've been able to watch both species of rhino in a day and really do a comparisson.<br />
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The two camps we would like to mention will be Okaukuejo and Namutoni. Okaukuejo Camp has a very special attraction in its waterhole, kept lightened throughout the night, making it impossible to go to bed! In Africa you get used to early nights, and the safari is over, but here it never ends. Continously new animals and even birds arrived. Fantastic!<br />
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Namutoni had more water, and that is probably the cause to that this place is a historic old German fort. This was the north-eastern limit for the empire, hrere they met with the more peaople rich bantu tribes from the woodlands in north and east, which still populate the fertile areas in north Namibia. What's left at Namutoni is now a national park camp, the main building clearly an old fort.<br />
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Here is the link to the parks official web-pages: <span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.4799995422363px;"><a href="http://www.etoshanationalpark.org/" target="_blank">http://www.etoshanationalpark.org/</a></span><br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4982610978479311189.post-17282265332067383432015-02-02T07:10:00.001+01:002017-08-19T08:24:29.563+02:00India - Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand - RETROOr first travel with nature as target went to India. It was back in March 2001, which to some part explains the picture quality. They were all positive/negative film, scanned recently with a good scanner, the original is the problem...<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 13px;">Indiutenforisn elephant family group, outside Dikali, Corbett NP, India 2001<br />
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<span style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">It was all about birding, organized through the local Birdlife organization. Our target was Ranthambore National Park, Keoladeo National Park, Corbett National Park and the highlands around Nainital in the lower Himalaya. To us, norwegians with little tropical experience, the first impressions of India was massive: temperature, traffic, people (especially children), smells, sounds, light - everything felt different to our own culture.</span></span><br />
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Ranthambore National Park (Ranthambore, Rajasthan), is a small forested area saved as old hunting grounds around an old fort. This was a hot dry place, with dry jungle and riverine forest as typical habitat, supplemented by som water bodies inside the park. Known for a few tiger territories, it contains a broad range of wildlife, mammals as well as birds. We spent a few days here, walking outside the gates, as well as having jeep safari inside the park. Our main target was met, a great male tiger displayed for us. Sorry for the bad picture, the imression was too big to actaully bring the camara forward while it was just looking at us.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Tiger - not a great picture - bt the only one, forgot to use the camera! Ranthambore, India, 2001</td></tr>
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Keoladeo National Park (Bharatpur, Rajasthan) was our next stop. A very tiny wetland reservoir outside the city, with an absolutely stunning density of birdlife, fenced by a wall to protect the original hunting park. Especially was the diversity in wetlandbirds and raptors stunning. It's all based upon walking distances, although bikes are for hire. The park even contains deer, ant the rumour was that both tigers and leopards jumped the walls to visit the "dinner-plate" now and then!<br />
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From here we had a short cultural experience, visiting the closely located old capital Fatehpur Sikri and the famous city of Agra with Taj Mahal, the Red Fort and Ganges. All very impressive, and definitively not something you can drive by, oppsite, we should have stayed longer in this area!<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Rufous Treepee, Ranthambore, India, 2001</td></tr>
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From here we turned into Uttarkhand, the mountain forests, and Jim Corbett National Park (the oldest park in India). The park is famous for it's elephants and tigers. And the birding was again extremely good. Most impressive was probably the Great Hornbill, but the vultures was all over the place, and (at least) four different species. We were lucky to meet two large familigroups of the Asian elephants, with animals of all sizes. Here they are in their almost westernmost habitat today, the animal once populating the whole Persia and Arabia, even Southern Europe (another subspecies). No more tigers seen, but living inside the park in an unfenced environment was a thrill, especially in the evenings. We did as well do walks on foot, and on the back of local (tamed) elephants with its mahout (owner).<br />
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After Corbett we ended our trip with some days in Nainital, Uttarkhand. This was a town ment for retreat when the plain was to hot (for Englishmen) in colonial times. The area around was hilly, and at this altitude, another round with new species was given. We walked above the city looking directly at Nanda Devi, which is Indias second highest mountain, at 7816 meter. The Himalaya view was impressive! The last day we visited a nice place called Saa Tal, with monkeys and woodpeckers in abundance.<br />
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