The Rotary Club of Winnfield got a 30-minute tour of South African animals on November 1 when Rotarian Bob Holeman had the program assignment and gave a presentation on his family’s August safari adventure.

With a series of projected slides, he began by showing images of the open vehicles in Botswana and South Africa to give Rotarians a glimpse of how near the wild animals were to the safari tourists.  Included in that sequence were close-up lions, leopards, elephants and a hyena.

The next series showed a number of the many antelope species seen there.  While Holeman knows of only one North American antelope (pronghorn), Africa has a variety.  Slides showed the bushbuck, impala, kudu, nyala, sable, steenbok, waterbuck and the least sightly wildebeest.  (Sizes from spotted white tail fawn to elk).

Journal readers may have seen prior columns on lions and leopards and elephants as well as an overview of the trip itself so we’ll stop here and use this opportunity simply to show some of the vehicle/animal proximity shots and a selection of antelope.