Kruger 300 Challenge - an introduction

Once every 5 years, or thereabouts, we set aside time & embark on, what we call, our Kruger Trek - ie: a north2south transit of the Kruger National Park. Summer's best for us & this year our trip coincides with the December silly season.

It's not a rushed affair... 3 weeks or so. It's also a wee time away from the smoke & dust; the hum-drum traffic & the other clap-trap that makes up our daily grind. We'll miss it...

Three things will be different on this 'Trip'.

1. Our route is a bit-ofa fish hook. We start midway - go north - further north & drop like a corporate-scandal down to the bottom where we'll spend as little time as possible. Too many peeps...
2. We like to 'bird with a purpose' even if it's for our own purposes rather than for the advancement of the human sp. as a whole. Yessiree; we're an obsessive compulsive duo - a disorder where size matters. Some 5-yrs ago we completed our Big Year - the '800 Challenge'. [Read eg. here, here & here]. That was fun & it's nigh time we do it again, properly this time. The premise of the '800' was a simple one - see as many bird sp. in Southern Africa as we could muster - within a single calendar year. The Kruger 300 - more a mini-jamboree, to be honest - is the same thing only with smaller crackers. The locale is less dynamic - we're confined to the internal volumes of the Kruger National Park & within the time framed - ie: for the duration of the 'Trip' or more accurately, the 15/12/2017 - 6/01/2018 incl. 
3. Alisha will include a VLOG snippet & an update (daily... time & fancy dependent); whilst I, [with a face for writing], will update the blog with a few odds & ends each evening. 

At odds with the 303 sp. a small team compiled in 24 hours, in the Southern region of the Kruger - our 300 Challenge will stand sentinel / glorious even. [If you canst beat 'em - pull 'em down to your level, I always say. Their record includes forest habitat ... ours will not]