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On demand pictures from 4 months in Africa

Discussion in 'BBS Hangout' started by arno_ed, Aug 10, 2006.

  1. arno_ed

    arno_ed Member

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    Here are the pictures from my South africa trip, i promised them in another thread. (especially For Samfisher)
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    The house we Lived in, in the middle of a nature reserve. you see the BBQ place were we BBQed, and were a hyena stole our chicken.
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    An elephant
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    A giraffe
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    An elephant close by



    I hope you will like them.
     
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  2. arno_ed

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    some more
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    A ground hornbill (A endangered Bird of prey, who walks when he hunts.
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    A Lion on a Road
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    Wild dogs the favorite animals of my Girlfriend
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    Hyena and Vultures with a buffelo Carcass, lions killed this Buffelo within a Mile of our house. They fled when they saw us, the hyena and vultures did not:D
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    The vultures at the Carcass
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    Sunset in Africa
     
  3. VooDooPope

    VooDooPope Love > Hate

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    awesome photos.

    must have been great
     
  4. rocketsinsider

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    great pics, thanks for sharing it with us
     
  5. Mr. Brightside

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    Wow, how in the heck did you get so close to that lion? Were you in a vehicle or something? I would be afraid of the elephant too, since those can charge you as well.
     
  6. wnes

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    Wrong, it's not a lion. It's a lioness. :mad:

    Cool pics nonetheless. :)
     
  7. GRENDEL

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    Very cool pics, thanks for sharing!
     
  8. SamFisher

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    thanks arno those are awesome.

    how did you get so close?
     
  9. SwoLy-D

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    Hebt u de grote versie van die foto? (sunset)
     
  10. MadMax

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    those are absolutely incredible! thank you!
     
  11. The Sensei

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    I would love to hear more about this African adventure of yours. Have any interesting stories you'd like to share?
     
  12. xlr817

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    WOW! Great pics! What kind of camera you used- digital or film?
     
  13. arno_ed

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    Thanks for the responses:D

    It was an amazing time. I wrote about it in another thread, however i have seem to lost the search function(so either i'm blind or it is disabled).

    I studied Elephants and Impala's for 4 months, in south africa. So i lived in a nature reserve, in a house without fences. So when we BBQed hyena's were waiting for us to leave the meat, and you could see their eyes. They usually waited in the grass about 12 feet from the BBQ place.

    I could get so close because of two reasons:
    1 we were in a Car, or on a car.
    2 we had a Shangaan guy with us(shangaan is one of the tribes of Black african people, like Zulu's). His name was Reis. He knew everything about the animals. The only problem was that he couldn't speak english, and a little bit Africaans, and since we also could only speak a little bit Africaans we didn't always understand each other:D.

    The lion was not that scary, the only thing a lion got scary was when there were lion tracks next to the car and we got out to make a picture of the tracks. And there was a lion 10 feet from my girlfriend, so we jumped back in the car, and luckily the lions also got scared and ran away.

    Elephants are actually the only animals which are dangerous when you are in a car. That one Elephant in the picture was very close, realy close. He was about 6 feet away from us. And he just stood there. he was only angry with us when we started the car again and drove away(because wi had some more work to do), he then flapped his ears etc.

    It was an amazing experience. Every night i could hear the hyena's, lions howling. And the rhino's and buffelo, and elephants. We even heard Hyena's walking under my window. Really Amazing.

    Swoly-D since when can you speak Dutch?:D
     
  14. arno_ed

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    Digital, but it is not the best camera:S therefor we had to get close to animals to have nice pictures.

    P.s. HAs anybody of you visited Thailand? how was it? I want to go there (and Nepal) soon, i want to see the buddhist culture.

    And MAdagascar(no not the movie, the country)? is it easy to see the lemurs?
     
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  15. ChrisBosh

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    a lion within 10 feet...that's scary. I would have been too scared to even move in that situation. I hate animals that are stronger than me :D
     
  16. BiGGieStuFF

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    Man that's so awesome. It's like right out of National Geographic.
     
  17. Mr. Brightside

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    That wild dog is so cool looking. I wish I could get one over here.
     
  18. SwoLy-D

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    Since I have wanted to have that Vulture Sunset photo as my desktop wallpaper. I hope that was grammatically correct.

    So... can I have it? Hebt u het? Si no, pues no y se acabó.
     
  19. tigermission1

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    Uw Nederlands is slecht ;)
     
  20. arno_ed

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    Hey Swoly-D sure you can have it, if you give me your e-mail adres, i will mail it to you.
     

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