Camp visitor...
Jul 31, 2017 16:54:05 #
I posted other pictures of our camp visitor but I had missed this one which shows how close he actually came before the camp staff shooed him off. Notice our tent behind him for scale.
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Jul 31, 2017 18:32:10 #
d3200prime wrote:
Yikes! That's one gigantic visitor. You're closer than I would have been!
A big softy really, he was just curious.Aug 1, 2017 06:32:29 #
rafikiphoto wrote:
I posted other pictures of our camp visitor but I had missed this one which shows how close he actually came before the camp staff shooed him off. Notice our tent behind him for scale.
Great shot rafikiphoto.
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Aug 2, 2017 10:00:59 #
Swamp-Cork wrote:
Excellent image and you have much more nerve than me!
Thanks. He wasn't giving any of the usual signs of aggression, he was just curious really. When the camp staff eventually shooed him away he did give a loud trumpet and a made short charge but it was short-lived. He walked away after that. I lived in East Africa for 13 years and spent lots of time in the bush and this one didn't give me cause for alarm.
Aug 2, 2017 10:23:51 #
WOW!!! Face to face with an elephant in the wild. Awesome. Your lens must have great IS. Either that or your Jason Bourne! 
Aug 2, 2017 10:27:09 #
ralphfr wrote:
WOW!!! Face to face with an elephant in the wild. Awesome. Your lens must have great IS. Either that or your Jason Bourne!
He had been walking around the camp for a while shaking trees for the seed pods and munching on those and then he just wandered over to see what we were doing.Aug 2, 2017 10:36:33 #
rafikiphoto wrote: He had been walking around the camp for a while shaking trees for the seed pods and munching on those and then he just wandered over to see what we were doing.
He had been walking around the camp for a while shaking trees for the seed pods and munching on those and then he just wandered over to see what we were doing.Had to be exhilarating!!!
Aug 2, 2017 10:45:24 #
ralphfr wrote:
Had to be exhilarating!!!
It was. Seeing him, and hearing him head-butting a large tree to shake down the seed pods was fascinating.
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