Balule Nature Reseve

My Drifters tour started early as we left Johannesburg and skirted Pretoria on our way to Blyde River Canyon.
We then had another long drive to this nature reserve.
Drifters have their own lodge in a small part of this private nature reserve
 which has an unfenced border with Kruger National Park.










It is common for game reserves to have flood-lit waterholes near their lodges.
A giraffe having an early morning drink with the guinea fowl.





A yellow-billed hornbill.


Elephants have made these scratch marks.




A deadly boomslang snake.


Another yellow-beaked hornbill.










A tourist enjoying himself.