The morning after the leopard sighting we are out for our morning game drive. Did I mention that morning game drives start at 6am so you are up at 5:30 or so. This means, of course, that there aren’t any late nights, which at our age isn’t necessarily a bad thing. One of the cool things you get are fantastic sunrises.
Plus you get to see cool spiders.
We couldn’t get out of the vehicle too much, but Shaun said Terry could get out to check a footprint we saw. This is an elephant’s rear footprint – and Terry doesn’t have what one could call a petite foot.
We saw lots of animals including a herd of about 25-30 wildebeests. These two were very curious about what they were seeing.
Now I have a photo of something else we saw just before these two characters. Shaun is driving along and hits the brakes. He says that there is a new zebra nearby. We ask how he knows this. “That is VERY fresh zebra afterbirth there. ” Terry won’t let me post the photo, but for those who want to see zebra afterbirth send me an email and I’ll fire it off to you.
Next we stop and Shaun says he has a surprise for Terry and Cindy.
I mentioned to Shaun in the first couple of days that the whole purpose of this was to celebrate Terry’s 65th birthday in May and that Cindy was also celebrating her birthday. He then arranged to have a special brunch set up in the middle of the reserve for us. It was fantastic.
What a tremendous surprise.
After brunch is was off to see a few more critters.This is the Lavendar Crested Roller. He is perhaps the most beautiful bird we saw on the safari. Later on I’ll post a photo of one in flight.
Impalas are so cute – but they are also on the menu for almost every animal around. Thus there are and awful lot of them.
Then it was back to our bush camp – locally known as Nyeliti.
It’s a tough life but…
In the evening we were out again looking for more game. We saw another giraffe with another bird
Apparently this rhino had been released into the reserve from a neighbouring area. In order to protect him from poachers, his tusk had been cut off so that any poachers wouldn’t kill him.
It’s cool to cross a river in a Landrover.
Zebras are just as cool in black and white.
And another fabulous sunset
Utterly marvellous photos!
Thanks Sue – see the reply to Lynne! LOL.
Fabulous photos. That last one is breath taking. Good job Geoffie!
Thanks Lynne – but I can’t take all the credit. Some of these are Terry’s.
Beautiful!
Thanks Bruce. Compliments always appreciated.
I finally twigged to check your blog site, Geoff and have really enjoyed it! What a marvellous trip, and terrific pictures. I think it must have been a relief not to have adequate time or wireless for facebook – you were able to just stay in the moment the whole time.
Thanks Petra – it was a wonderful experience.