Kruger National Park, Lower Sabie

Yesterday we moved a little further north to another campsite in the Kruger Park called Lower Sabie. It's a very nice site, with emplacements bordered with trees and shrubs, giving it feeling of space and natural habitat. However as a popular campsite it is also very busy, with the odd overland truck and groups. I think I still prefer Malelane, as it was more like camping in the countryside.
In the last couple of days we have seen lots of elephants, we had a close encounter with a large cow elephant who became very agitated protecting her calf as we drew up in the car. We backed away very slowly. In fact we have had two incidences of elephant cows becoming quite threatening when they have young. There are so many hippos, every river and dam seems to have so many, we have also seen crocodiles, in and out of the water and some large rhino. Deer and antelope abound, particularly Kudu and Impala, both of whom are having young at the moment. So are the Vervet monkeys and it is touching to see the tiny babies clinging onto their mothers, all you can see is their tiny feet poking through their mothers fur at the back.
There are lots of animals here, just driving from one place to another we see warthogs, wildebeest, impala and kudu in abundance. The highlight of today has to be the lions, two male lions so stuffed after a recent kill that they could hardly move. they were just lying by the roadside. They were only a couple of metres from the car. We also saw a jackal who had just eaten, but he was in a field and too far away to photograph. In fact photography has been a bit of a problem today, as it has been one of those typical African days, heavy cloud and poor light. I always remember that when I was first in Tanzania I was amazed at the lack of sunshine. I was used to the clear, blue, cloudless skies of Greece and was quire unprepared for the towering clouds.
A couple of nights ago we had an electric storm, lots of lightning and some thunder. It rained quite hard last night and has drizzled off and on for most of today, but its warm we are sitting outside in T shirts and shorts at 20.30.
We took a beer and parked by a dam tonight at 18.00 and watched in the gloom as the hippos came out to graze, a crocodile cruised past and the elephants came down to drink.
The bird are wonderful, I can't photograph them, but I don't really want to. I've hardly taken any photos, maybe 20 since we arrived. You miss so much trying to photograph everything, and for why? My photographs of the birds and animals we see will never be as good as a postcard I can buy, and I probably won't ever look at them again, better to treasure the moment.
We have another day here and then we move further north again. We will end our Kruger trip in the far north, at the Zimbabwe border, and as far as we can tell, not so many people go there, it's more about scenery, archaeology and birds. Sounds good.