ChrisT
AH enthusiast
Wanted to share these two interesting pictures with members here...
Now there's nothing special about the pictures itself - much better pictures have been taken of elephants.
But what is interesting about these pictures is "where" they were taken...
Our property is situated 12 miles South of a town called Lephalale (Ellisras) and the last free ranging elephants that roamed this area probably did so 200 years ago... The closest free ranging elephants one would find in our general vicinity would be North of us in the Tuli Block of Botswana - the border being the Limpopo River which is about 65 miles from here...
However; I didn't take these pictures in Botswana this past Sunday but right here - on our own property!
Apparently these two elephant bulls decided to follow the example set by thousands of Zimbabweans, Mozambicans and Botswana illegal immigrants and trekked across the Limpopo River towards South Africa...
They've walked through agricultural farmland game ranches, crossed paved roads and destroyed fences and on Sunday afternoon found themselves in my "backyard"...
Picture of elephant taken on our property - 200 yards from my house.
Picture taken of the two bulls after they'd crossed my property and had fed on corn on my neighbor's.
This is Africa! Never a dull moment!
Now there's nothing special about the pictures itself - much better pictures have been taken of elephants.
But what is interesting about these pictures is "where" they were taken...
Our property is situated 12 miles South of a town called Lephalale (Ellisras) and the last free ranging elephants that roamed this area probably did so 200 years ago... The closest free ranging elephants one would find in our general vicinity would be North of us in the Tuli Block of Botswana - the border being the Limpopo River which is about 65 miles from here...
However; I didn't take these pictures in Botswana this past Sunday but right here - on our own property!
Apparently these two elephant bulls decided to follow the example set by thousands of Zimbabweans, Mozambicans and Botswana illegal immigrants and trekked across the Limpopo River towards South Africa...
They've walked through agricultural farmland game ranches, crossed paved roads and destroyed fences and on Sunday afternoon found themselves in my "backyard"...
Picture of elephant taken on our property - 200 yards from my house.
Picture taken of the two bulls after they'd crossed my property and had fed on corn on my neighbor's.
This is Africa! Never a dull moment!
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