Roy Allen

Sports fan and Wildlife photographer

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Had a 3:30 wake up call from roaring Lions right outside of camp before moving North to Satara, a very different ecosystem than the Southern part of Kruger. Got our first good look at the Wild Dog puppies on the way and had sightings of Lions, Owls, and Wild Cats on a night drive

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Day 2⃣ in 🇿🇦
The day started off with a bang once again with Wild Dogs active around their den. A short time later we had a pair of very curious Hyena pups all to ourselves at their den. We ran into huge herd of 100+ Zebras before finding a Lioness and her cubs to close the day!

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Following a 15 hour flight to Johannesburg our African adventure kicked off with a bang! Right off the bat my favorite animal and the (usually) rare, African Wild Dog. Had some great Hippo interactions in the Lake Panic Hide and saw a large breeding herd of Elephants!

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@WayneCavadi_D2 @ZacCole_ I would think so. They are down to 8 teams for 2026 I believe

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@WayneCavadi_D2 @ZacCole_ Ummm... You still have time to delete this... Nobody in the ASUN (with Tampa right in the middle of their footprint) has Football..

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@SanJacRaven43 I hate it, but I have to agree. I don't know that you can go all year with 75% of the teams using metal and then change when playing for a National Championship, but there is certainly no pureness to the games there because of the elements that you noted.

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@CoachMcCarry That's fair, and I don't think it is a fool proof metric. But again, they had 11 Division I wins this year, nobody else in the field had less than 30. As I said before, I am sure they are really good and the eye test would tell you that, but you can't seed teams on the eye test

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@CoachMcCarry @eugene2clean I would probably say your schedule difficulty is based on who you play, not where the games are played.

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@LucyCreer @bradleywhayes @AppleTV @F1 Ya, you are definitely onto something there

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This @AppleTV @F1 broadcast is almost unwatchable. 4 time World Champion does a 360 in the opening lap and it's not replayed until the 8th lap? A car rolls over and the commentators are guessing what happened when there are multiple cameras on every car?

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@numberonecoog I'm going to go back to last year's races and see where the start replays were played. I will eat crow if it was similar to yesterday. I just felt with the amount of incidents going on, some sort of explanation or replay would have benefitted the broadcast

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@JordanOwens45 @AppleTV @F1 Not trying to be a smart ass at all actually. My point is, last year, I just watched the main feed and saw all of that stuff. Yesterday I would need to have my remote and flip through 22 cameras to see the same thing

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@Geess2 @AnchrumTerry @AppleTV @F1 I didn't have enough characters to fully describe my complaint. My complaint is not their knowledge level (completely agree with Danica), but more how they didn't seem to know what was going on in the race. Maybe a tech issue with their feed?

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@JustMyOpinions4 @AppleTV @F1 I'll definitely try that out for the next race

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@and1_gr @Some_Dopamine @AppleTV @F1 Fair, I guess the broadcast has been so much worse this year than last year when I was watching it on ESPN, I felt it was a different feed

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@numberonecoog How about throw up a picture in picture to show why one front row driver was off the track and the other dropped to 10th after the first corner. Seems like a sort of important part of the race

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@JordanOwens45 @AppleTV @F1 So I could pull the information about why Gasly and Lawson were suddenly out of the race when there was no video or commentary of it on the broadcast? Gotcha

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@atKenNelson @AppleTV @F1 That's probably the move now. Unfortunately we used to get all the action just in the regular broadcast, but it looks like now it is just going to take a little bit more effort

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@nirave @helloapplehome @AppleTV @F1 I get that to a point too. The start was great with lots of action, but still, we used to get an overhead of the race start within the first couple laps, especially in the situation where there was an incident