I'm sorry I've been neglecting this thread the past two weeks. Here are some new images.
#16 - Springbok in Etosha NP. These are by far the most common antelopes in Etosha, if not Namibia. Slightly smaller and lighter than impala, they are just the right size and thus the favourite prey for cheetah. They are extremely fast at 88 km/h and got their name from the hilarious way they are sometimes bouncing around. You should check it out on Youtube, reminded me of a kangaroo.
#17 - Cheetah in Etosha NP. This might well be my favourite wildlife shot from our travels. We were on our way back to the gates which were about to close soon. Zooming along the side of the Etosha pan, my mother spotted a massive lone elephant bull wandering across the pan. I thought it might make for a good picture, so we stopped. Suddenly my brother cried out
"There's a cheetah under that tree!". And indeed, less than 20 m away there was a beautiful cheetah sitting under a tree. We waited and spotted two more - considering that due to strong competition from lions there are only about 85 of them in the whole park of 22,000 sq km, we were extremely lucky to spot them. We realised they were slowly stalking up onto a herd of springbok, so we reversed until we were right next to the herd in anticipation of a great chase scene. Unfortunately they took their time and as the gate closing time was nearing we realised that it would not be worth an extremely hefty fine, so we left.
#18 - Lion cub. We arrived at one waterhole to see a couple of cars parked there, everyone observing something in awe. We stared at the waterhole but were unable to spot anything. After a couple of minutes a very kind lady in another car held a piece of A4 paper out of her window that she had scribbled 'lion' on in large letter. We were extremely excited as we had not seen any before, but it still took us another 10 or so minutes to spot them. There were in fact six lion cubs hidden in the tall reed along the waterhole. One came out to drink and I managed to snap this shot.