Safari

[Puggit]

Taken with a mere Canon PowerShot A710, most of the pics at 6x maximum optical zoom...

Zebra Crossing:


Mummy elephant:


Baby elephant:


Crocodile:


Hippo:


Thirsty giraffe:


Hot giraffe:


Kudu:


Warthogs:


Rhinos:


Sadly we didn't see any cats in the wild, but we did visit a lion sanctuary:

[Scho]

thought you'd gone and started another mac vs pc thread there

the lion cub with its tongue out is great...my cats do that!

[ThatPhilBrettGuy]

Were did you go on safari?

[beano500]

Puggit said:

...mere...

That's clearly not the correct word in this context. It looks to be a very capable bit of kit!

Nice shooting.

[Puggit]

ThatPhilBrettGuy said:

Were did you go on safari?

Pilanesberg, 2.5 hours NW of Joburg. It's a man made reserve in that all the animals are imported and managed, and it was farm land turned over to wildlife. The park is 572km square, so not small!

Cost was R1100 for transport, lunch, guided tour of the park in those big open 4x4s, visit to lion sanctuary and Sun City. That's around £62...

The Canon A710 is a grown up point and shoot - features a full manual mode, which I didn't use!