In June of 2003 my daughter and I did a month-long safari in Tanzania. The first two-thirds was on the northern curcuit and then we flew to the Selous and spent a week. We stayed at the Rufiji River Camp and it was a good experience. The Selous is a very large park and hunting is still allowed in part of it. When we were there we saw very few tourists and the area seemed much "wilder" than the north. The animals were not nearly so used to people and it gave a different feeling than other areas of Africa I have visited. The
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Big Croc (cont.) But is a couple of seconds he was ino the water with only a ripple to...
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Hungry Crocodile I don't know where enough food comes from to feed all these large...
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One final Croc
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Hippopotamus If there was one thing the river had more of than big Crocs it was big Hippos.
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Hippo We would be floating along, in the boat, and suddenly there would be a hippo...
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Hippo This one was on the bank but as soon as he saw us...
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Hippo Talk about a belly-flop. He really caused a splash.
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Hippo family Bull, cow and young calf. Note the croc against the bank right behind...
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Cow and calf Croc still in background.
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Bull Hippo Note all the scars, probably from fighting with other bulls.
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Croc and pod of hippos i am sure there must be fights between hippos and crocs but we never saw any...
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Hippo returning from feeding It was just after sunrise and he was hurrying back to the river.
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Hippo pod
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Common Waterbucks Two females were feeding along the bank accompanied by an Egret.
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Cape Buffalo Relaxing in the river.
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Bull and friends We pulled up close, in hopes he would get up and give us a better...
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Giraffe We saw many animals coming down to drink and this was one. The bank...
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Our land transport When we were not on the river the camp provided this truck and a...
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Lion pride As soon as we saw this pride we knew they had a kill. Their stomachs were...
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Lions About all they were willing to do is turn their heads and look at us.
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Lioness on Zebra kill After looking for a few minutes we found this lady polishing off the kill.
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Lioness and cubs This was a different day and place. We came across these three by themselves.
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Lion close-up
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Lion cubs They watched us for a few minutes and then...
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Lion cubs The cubs lost interest in us.
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