Beginning in Plett

We drove most of the day from Cape Town with a slight detour to Montagu where we had a delicious lunch of bobotie. We had thought to drive along the R62 through the desert or Karro but our GPS told us it would take too long so we adjusted and took the shore motorway to Plett. We had a wonderful dinner at The Fat Fish of local fish. The next morning we walked to the beach which was very close to our guesthouse (Anlin Beach House)

Robberg Nature Reserve as seen from Robberg Beach

Robberg Beach

Anlin Beach House, our terrace is on the right

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We left after a breakfast of homemade croissants and muesli for Addo. We passed the Storms River Gorge.

We arrived at Addo mid-afternoon through the southern gate and drove through the park to the Main Rest Camp in the northern part of the park

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Our first animal was the warthog then a zebra and our first elephant

Apparently there is an over population of warthogs. They brought in lions who are doing a good job on controlling the warthogs 

The lions don't like zebra unfortunately

There are elephants everywhere, this is the first one we saw.

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We also saw along the road a family of kudus, a heron and Cape buffalo.

Heron

Cape buffalo

kudu

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We arrived at the rest camp and the hillside we can view from our rondeval was full of elephants.

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If you look closely this lion is missing a canine tooth which will make it more difficult for him to kill his prey.

The next morning we took the sunrise game drive leaving at 6 am before the sun came up. Ryan (Sheila thinks his name was Brian) found us a pair of male lions

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Later we encountered a herd of elephants in the bush where they gather to keep warm overnight. There was a baby elephant amongst them but the adults seemed to want to protect it from being photographed.

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Baby elephant is to the right of the larger elephant

Later one of the passengers saw a family of yellow mongoose and several ostriches with zebra

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Ryan (Brian) was both our guide and driver in an open truck. He used a spotlight to spot wildlife, looking for the reflection from the back of their eyes. His spotlight is rated at 600 lumens.