Aug '10 - Africa Photo Gallery by Jim & Cynthia at pbase.com

Aug '10 - Africa

Once again, we traveled to our favorite place (Zambia!) ... but on the way we had a fantastic visit with Jessica and Adam in their new place in Australi!

Packing, just before getting my hair cut!	Ready to go!!	Checking in for Quantas	Cyn is already writing in her journal!
Our annual photo in the elevator doors at SFO	Calling the kids to say "good bye"	We love the exit row	Coming in to Sydney at dawn
"HI" to my baby girl	View of Bulli from the escarpment	We saw a kookabura!!	Jim in front of Jess and Adam's place
Jessica cooking	Hanging out at Jessica and Adam's	The guest bedroom	Adam, hard at work on a publication
Doing the laundry!	HIke around the top of the escarpment	The family!	Enjoying snacks at the Scarborough Hotel
Overlooking the ocean	Off for a walk in the Minnamura Rainforest	Adam relaxes while we birdwatch	Jessica joins Adam
Lovely trails everywhere	The tail of the superb lyrebird	Minnamura Falls	The young happy couple
The older happy couple	Minnamura Falls	Mother and daughter	An ad for birdwatching in Australia!
Jess and Adam snuggle	Walking back along the Minnamura Falls trail	Cyn continues to search for lyrebirds	Rainforest views
Rainforest ferns	Jim and large fronds	At the picnic area, Minnamura Rainforest	Jess brought picnic food for the barbie
Stir fry outdoors!	A pied currawong joins the meal	Fitzroy Falls	Gorgeous high falls
Lichen at Fitzroy Fals	Fitzroy Falls	The trail goes out there!?!	Adam can't believe how steep the cliff is!
Twin Falls	The top of the falls!	We actually saw kangaroos in Kangaroo Valley!!	Playing pool at a "hotel"
The height of the "tissu" (streamer) at Jessica's circus class	Jessica climbing the tissu	Jess climbs higher on the tissu	Jessica looking sweet while climbing
Jessica prepares to twirl down the tissu	Twirling down	Jessica twirls down the tissu some more!	Mom is getting scared!
Jessica at the end of her twirling!	Brunch at Darling Harbor	A fountain in Hyde Park, Sydney	Flowers at the botanical garden
Fruit bats	Fruit bat stretching	a noisy miner	Jim at the Sydney Opera house
Part of the Opera House	Detail of tile on Opera House	Cyn in front of Opera House (looks like Darth Vader's helmet!)	Rainbow lorikeet in botanical garden
Out to "the point" to see the waves	Jess and Adam admire the large waves	Jim takes photos of the waves!	Jess and Adam looking at waves
The waves are truly massive	Jess and Adam at their"point" in Bulli	The family enjoys the wild weather	Jim collects sand from Bulli, Australia for our collection
In front of Jess and Adam's place	In the botanical gardens, Univ of Wollongong	Silver gull	Sulphur-crested cockatoo
Kookabura	Purple swamphen	Little pied cormorant	Off for a birdwatching walk
The family sees nice birds!	Arranging the cake to spell "962" life birds	Celebrating our visit with a whole cake!	Our luggage is in Jess's car, ready for our flight to Africa
We got the exit row again, yeah!	8 Reedbuck Hotel, Lusaka	Jim collapses after long flights	Breakfast at 8 Reedbuck, Lusaka
At Lusaka airport, ready to go!	At Lusaka airport, bound for Mfuwe	Landing at Mfuwe	Our tent at Tena Tena
Tena Tena bed	Tena Tena loo	Tena Tena shower with a view!	Tena Tena tent
Simon checks for leopard tracks	Our "fly camping" (or "bush camping") tent	Our fly camping tent	The fly camping tent is quite tall
Our comfy bushcamping bed	Jim relaxes at bush camp during siesta	The view during siesta at bush camp	View from our bushcamping tent
Our elegant bush camp bucket shower enclosure	Distance from our tent to the loo at bush camp	Hanging out in our bush camp	Sink and towels at bush camp
I loved our fly camp canvas "sinks"!	Cynthia does the laundry at bush camp	Laundry time in fly camp!	Breakfast fixings at bush camp
Our bush camp drinks table	"The bar" at bushcamp	Bushcamping luncheon	Jim in bush camp
Cyn dresses in her kikoi at bush camp	Dinner time at bush camp	Dinner table at bush camp	Ready for the evening in bush camp
Cooking over coals for bush camp	Breakfast at fly camp	Our rondavel at Nsefu	View from our room at Nsefu
The happy couple at Nsefu	Chameleon in camp!	Goodbye from Nsefu	Canoeing on transfer from Nsefu to Chindeni
Lunch at Mfuwe Lodge, on transfer to Chindeni	Our tent at Chindeni	Welcome to our Chindeni tent	Chindeni tent
View from Chindeni tent	Chindeni bathroom	Our sitting room in our tent at Chindeni	Chindeni hammocks
Enjoying Chindeni hammock	Thorn tree outside Chindeni tent	Luncheon at Chindeni	The edge of the deck, Chindeni
The main teak-decked sitenje at Chindeni	Coffee fixings at Chindeni	Excited about birds at Chindeni	Watching elies from the Chindeni deck
Sunrise at Chindeni	Walking safari from Chindeni	Time for tea! During Chindeni walk	A tall termite mound!
On a drive with Manda from Chindeni	Our chalet, Chamilandu	View of the Luangwa River, Chamilandu chalet	View from our sink at Chamilandu
View from the loo, Chamilandu	Open air sinks, Chamilandu	View from our chalet of the Luangwa River, Chamilandu	Peter's bat in our chalet roof
Jim welcoming you to Chamilandu	Our bed at Chamilandu	Our chalet at Chamilandu	Showering at Chamilandu
Enjoying the bathroom at Chamilandu	Siesta time at Chamilandu	Still life, Chamilandu	The main sitenje, Chamilandu
Sandy floor in the main sitenje, Chamilandu	The bar at Chamilandu	Bar at Chamilandu	Solar panels at Chamilandu
Breakfast at Chamilandu	Watching our 2009 video, Chamilandu	The elephant "blind" at Chamilandu	Ready for elephant viewing, Chamilandu
Jim waiting for elies, Chamilandu	The intrepid hikers take a break	Always handy!	The elephant blind at Chamilandu is comfy!
We are ready for elephants to come to the Chamilandu lagon	Out for a drive, Chamilandu	The photographer at the ready!	Tea break, Chamilandu
Gilbert tests our knowledge, Chamilandu	Lunch in the elephant blind, Chamilandu	The Chamilandu gang found a leopard!	Our boma at Kuyenda
Our boma at Kuyenda	Welcome to our boma!	Kuyenda chairs	Our bed at Kuyenda
View from our boma, Kuyenda	Sinks at Kuyenda	Collecting our morning hot water, Kuyenda	The loo at Kuyenda
The floor of the loo is soft sand at Kuyenda!	Hand wash station, Kuyenda	The bar at Kuyenda	The main sitenje, Kuyenda
The Kuyenda visitors book from the 2009 adventure!	Dinner table at Kuyenda	Dinner table at Kuyenda	Kuyenda dinner
Our boma at sunrise	Sunrise at Kuyenda	Morning at Kuyenda	Our cherished bracelets
Feather dusting the vehicle, Kuyenda	Phil is a great host!	Tall grasses near Kuyenda	Grasses and lagoon near Kuyenda
Lagoons along the safari walk	Phil peels a fruit	Phil tells a story, Kuyenda walking safari	Phil's walking stick (vegetable ivory cap)
The famous safari hats	Phil provides tea for Jim, Kuyenda	Phil reads Cyn's life bird list, Kuyenda	Jim relaxing at tea break
Walking safari, Kuyenda	Cyn has one bad tsetse bite and needs sausage	Sausage fruits	Jim has a collection of sausage fruit for Cyn
A dung beetle dung ball!	Babette collects leaves for the table, Kuyenda	Iced coffee at Kuyenda	Cyn writes up the menu with Babette, Kuyenda
The gang watches the 2009 adventure video at Kuyenda	We're off for our 3-day bush walk!	Cyn is prepared for anything	Jim, the intrepid bush walker
Going on a bush walk!	Bush walk along a lagoon	Enjoying a bush walk	The happy couple, bush walking!
Love our bracelets	Red ants marching	Red ants on the go	A weaver nest
A "wooden banana" seed pod	While bushwalking, we come across bone	Crouching down as elephants pass on our bush walk	The elephants are so close as we crouch down!
Tea break during bush walking	We enjoy our break along the river while walking	Tracking lions on our bush walk	Lions and leopards we were tracking
Debs, our trusty bush walking guide, spots a lionness!	Cyn sees the lionness!	Jim sees the lionness!	Lioness and cub we saw while walking!!
The cub we saw while walking	Tea break after seeing lions on bush walk	Male lion! Encountered next on our bush walk	Our bushwalking scout
Male giraffe encourages female	Male encouraging female	Large male Thornicroft giraffe	Oxpecker on board
Giraffe tail	Kid giraffes	Kids playing	Giraffe practice fight
Hippo trails	Hippos relaxing	Hippo baby yawn	Hippo still life
Hippo baby yawn	Hippo biting	Serious hippo fight	Lolling hippos
Hippo train	Hippo pile up	Really big crocs!	The alpha male
Comfy male baboon	Young baboon enjoys a perch	Mother and baby	Like mother, like child
A quick glance at the photographer	Baby trying to climb aboard	Baby hanging on!	Tiny baby stays underneath mom
Baboon running	Two baboon babies play	A baboon tussle	Baboons rogering (with baby on board!)
Impalas leaping!	Running impala	Impala ladies	Impala faces
Impala ankles	"M" for McDonald's of the bush	Impala from behind	Impala line up
Skipping impala	Puku antelope	Puku	Peeking pukus
Puku stare at predators	Yong male puku	Mother and baby puku	waterbuck
Bushbuck	The regal kudu	Several male kudu	3 male kudu
A young kudu	Statuesque male kudu	A dazzle of zebra	Zebra
Vulture coming in to land	Lappet-faced vulture	White-headed vulture	Hooded vulture
Lionesses gathered!	The vultures led us to lions!	Lioness	Lioness yawn
Sister lionesses	Tree squirrel	Warthog	Buffalo horns
Cape buffalo	Buffalo babies	Jammies at Chamilandu	Jammies at Kuyenda
Falling out of a tree while photographing jammies at Kuyenda	Lilly flowers	Love the scent of wild jasmine	Crested barbet
Lilac-breasted roller	Lilac-breasted roller	Lilac-breasted roller flies!	Lillian's lovebirds
White-browed coucal	Wattled starlings	Ground hornbill	Brown-hooded kingfisher
White-crowned plover and fish eagle	White-crowned plovers	Emerald-spotted wood dove	Red-winged pratincole spreads wings
Searching for red-winged pratincole eggs	A regal fish eagle	Saddlebilled stork	Forked-tail drongo, a favorite of Cyn's
White-fronted bee-eater	Saddle-billed storks	Ground hornbill	Egyptian geese
Red-necked spurfowl	Saddle-billed stork	Jim enjoying a safari game drive	The photographer hard at work
Jim videotapes sundowers	Cynthia in the safari vehicle	Lions get THIS close!	A lovely liones
A young male with fuzzy mane	Lionesses cuddly	Lionesses snuggle	Lionesses alert and ready to wander
It can get cold!	Still life from game drives	Enjoying sundowners, Chamilandu	Sharing video with Chindeni guys
Jim, the goggle man!	Full moon rise	Sundowners at "the spot" of the 2009 adventure	Kerosene lanterns at sundown
Enjoying sundowners	Sun behind clouds	The table of sundowners and snacks	Phil and Babette, Kuyenda sundowners
The happy couple	Sundowners!	Yummy sundowners!	Back from the loo!
Sunset	Sunset	Sunset	Sunset
Honey badger	Hyena	A lovely hyena	7 lovebirds in a row!
Porcupine!	Leopard finds a comfy spot	Leopard scratches in his tree	Leopard stares for awhile
Leopard curls up	Young male leopard later at night	Large female leopard	The elusive leopard by day
Gorgeous rosettes	Barred owelet	Giant eagle owl	Giant eagle owl
Pel's fishing owl	Pel's fishing owl displaying!!	Pel's fishing owl hooting	See how close the elephants can be!
26 elephants in a lagoon	Enjoying elephants in the lagoon	We love elephants!	Elephants from behind
Mother and daughter	Kids tusseling trunks	Striped elephants (from river crossing)	Elephants protect the babies
Anxious elephants run	Little elephant keeps up	Torn ear!	A curious elephant
A bit of flared ears	Bull elie	A 6-month old brave boy!	After flaring ears, the brave boy runs to mom
Curious baby trunk	Mother and baby	Elephants drinking at Chamilandu lagoon	An elephant comes close
Mother and child	Digging in the grass for roots	Young elephant scratches leg	The matriarch
Mother and child	Tiny baby!	Elephants at sunset	Mother and child
Elephants saying goodbye	Cynthia spotted lions!	Reading Cynthia's journal	Our last mosi of the year
Ready for travel	Scrabble and amarula, Joberg airport	In Dubai, before our last flight home

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