{"id":51,"date":"2016-06-27T06:49:00","date_gmt":"2016-06-27T11:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogtest.cowebtech.ca\/?p=51"},"modified":"2019-10-03T08:53:47","modified_gmt":"2019-10-03T13:53:47","slug":"watering-holes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.cowell.ca\/?p=51","title":{"rendered":"Watering holes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My best sightings of elephants so far has been at <b>Nyamundwa<\/b> (I don&#8217;t think I can pronounce this one), which is 10km East of Phabeni Gate. &nbsp;This lake was one if the few that I have been to that still had a lot if water in it during the dry season.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>When I arrived there was already a few cars there. &nbsp;You can park right at the edge of the lake and, if you are lucky, you can see elephants taking a bath! There were maybe 15 or so that were playing around in the water and just relaxing in the morning sun.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Further East, close to Lower Sabie is <b>Sunset Point<\/b>, which is also good for game viewing, especially around sunset. &nbsp;I saw quite a few hippopotamus here. &nbsp;They are hard to spot at first if they are almost fully submerged, but if you wait they will return to the surface.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>I also saw some crocodile here, which is perhaps why it is important not to get out of your car!<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Last night I took another night drive and saw hyena for the first time. &nbsp;There was a mother and two cubs. &nbsp;I will add pictures once I download them from my camera.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My best sightings of elephants so far has been at Nyamundwa (I don&#8217;t think I can pronounce this one), which is 10km East of Phabeni Gate. &nbsp;This lake was one if the few that I have been to that still &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.cowell.ca\/?p=51\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[122],"tags":[34],"class_list":["post-51","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-south-africa","tag-kruger"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.cowell.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.cowell.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.cowell.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cowell.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cowell.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=51"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cowell.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":213,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cowell.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51\/revisions\/213"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.cowell.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cowell.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cowell.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}