A phone call from a friend had me drop everything .. dash home for my cameras and off the the Golf club… No, Ernie Els, or the like, had not shown up, but the young meerkats had come to visit…
700 odd photos later, mostly taken on 3 per second setting, I had a bag full of interesting photos… they are so fast and that special moment is difficult to capture on single shot…
They soon got used to me being among them and played away checking every now and then to make sure I was keeping a look out for eagles and hawks… when they looked at me I looked to the sky as though I was the look out on duty… they’d also check to make sure I was doing my job and then got back to their playing with each other… I felt extremely privileged when they came over to check my scent…
Or maybe they thought my feet stank as the meerkat quickly past and scent marked my takkie… well lets put it this way he peeeed on my shoe…
But it was their playing and mock battles that fascinated me and is going to bore you for the next few posts… here’s a sample…
The Photographic Journey of bulldog. 