This post is for firstandfabulous and robsreallife who both commented on seeing another animal shape in my last Which Way post.
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A couple of other readers made similar remarks. I did promise to post my most embarrassing ‘sighting’ in Kruger National Park.
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Our driver stopped to point out the rhino in the distance. I was quite adamant that I had a rhino in sight…the small scrubby tree right in the middle of the photo! After noting that my fellow travellers were pointing/looking in another direction I trained my lens on my “rhino” only to see that it was a tree… 😦
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…it was actually a hundred metres to my right. Oops!
It wasn’t the only Oops I had during the trip.
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It was hot and the heat haze did not help…at least that’s my excuse. Fortunately we had much closer sightings later on in our travels.
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