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On our last day in Africa, Erika took us to the Kruger Park again. Poor Tony had to go back to work. We went in the Phalaborwa Gate which is so close to their house. We checked out the dead elephant near Letaba (See page 3) and spent a lot of time overlooking the Olifants River. It was an overcast day, not too hot, and there were hippos out of the water everywhere. We saw about forty of them. They seemed close with the binoculars, but as you can see they were really quite far away.
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They looked like bunches of slugs lying there.
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Hippos have more pink on them than you think.
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There were lots of mothers and babies.
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When they weren't lying around like slugs, there was a lot of milling around, as if they were looking for cooler spots in the damp sand.
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Keep up with me, Kid!
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More slugging.
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Time to take a dip and cool off.
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I almost got this one in the full "yawn"--he couldn't see me behind the bush or he wouldn't have opened his mouth at all.
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The little guy in the middle is either practicing to be a big hippo bull.....or he's lost his mommy.
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Click on the hippos to go to page nineteen.
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