Kruger National Park Satara

Another day of temperatures around 38C so we are spending the afternoon back at the campsite, sitting in the shade of a tree we were lucky enough to find. We didn't make such an early start today, having a leisurely breakfast and leaving about 07.30. It was already 28C, but with the car windows open there was a pleasant breeze. We took a westerly route from the campsite and most of the time were on gravel roads. We followed the Timbavati river for the first part of the trip, a vast dry and sandy river bed for the most part. There was barely a trickle of water, but the vast size of the river bend suggests that at some time it is a formidable river. The route was interesting as we went through several different types of landscape, vast dry plains, densely wooded scrub, and clumps of taller trees. We saw a variety of birds, so many we are unable to identify, but at one small tributary crossing where there was a stronger flow of water we saw storks and a kingfisher. A large band of baboons were occupying a water hole, taking a bath, looking for all  the world as if they were scrubbing under their arm and the backs of their necks.
We've decided to change our itinerary slightly and have managed to do it from here. Now that we are more familiar with the Park and the Campsites we have decided to miss out a single one night stop at a smaller camp, Balule and tack an extra night onto the stay at Letaba. We were only going to overnight at Balule from the 'rural' experience, and quite honestly we have had loads of other much more 'rural' experiences at other times, on other trips. Three nights at Letaba will give us more opportunity to take in some of the more diverse range of experiences available in that area.
We've decided to take a walk around the perimeter fence at dusk and see if we can't get a glimpse of the honey badgers, which evidently patrol the fence at night, as the hyenas did at Crocodile Bridge.