Knowsley Safari Park with Blondie. June 2006

Julie (aka. Blondie) is a friend from my travels with Barefoot Safaris (see travelogues) and also a volunteer worker for Project African Wilderness, who came up from Darkest Norfolk to visit for a weekend.
Knowsley Safari Park isn't quite the same as Africa, but it certainly brought on some nostalgia, especially with Sitatunga, Nyala and Kafue Flats Lechwe on view. (Wild dogs too, allegedly, but we didn't see any, so that treat is still to come for me)
The photos marked * are Blondie's.
Pere David's Deer

Rhea

Very lazy lions

It looks like a Nyala, but I think this one's actually a Bongo

Wallaby with loo brush (or baby)
We think this is a Nilgai
Ankole Cattle
Fallow deer or Axis deer (hard to tell)
The baboons . . .
. . . admire . . .
. . . the car . . .
. . . and themselves.
Bactrian camel (shedding their winter coats)
Eland, the largest of the antelopes
An ostrich succesfully defends her eggs against a bunch of marauding buffalo
Buffalo check the vehicles
I've now seen one white rhino in Africa - and five in England!
An ostrich poses for Blondie
Kafue Flats lechwe (Kafue, in Zambia, is a reserve I haven't done - yet)
* Meercats - are we watching them or are they watching us?
And finally . . .
*. . . the best . . .
. . . sealion display .. .
. . . I've ever seen.
* The gang on Cown Edge - Malcolm, Gaynor and me
* All change - Malcolm Gaynor and Blondie
* More wildlife - a grey heron by the Peak Forest Canal above Marple


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