Sunday, May 1, 2016
After four safaris I've seen a herd of elephants for half an hour playing in the mud and drinking, many encounters with giraffes in groups or alone, a pack of wild dogs, which are rare, created excitement of the guides in the chase to find them, Radioing back and forth til all the vehicles gathered around watching. They were eating something they'd caught. The guide said they are vicious killers, often killing just for fun, and walking away without eating their kill. Two brother cheetas were orphans and were hand raised, and the guides go out of their way to keep human contact daily so they don't forget humans. We approached them the first time after they killed and were eating an impala, one was still nibbling on it and the other was full and stretched out on the ground watching his brother and us occasionally grooming himself like a house cat. We all ten tourists, the guide and the tracker walked up to one side and snapped away on our cameras. They both just ignored us. After a few minutes we quietly left them to themselves. A hyppo's head was seen in the water from the opposite side of the lake, a croc was stretched out on the bank. We search for quite awhile to find the rhinoceros, and a few minutes later saw another one aways down a dry River bank. I saw the rumps of a herd of zebra's way across the field, too far for pictures, and too brief a time to try a long distance shot of those moving targets. There are impala everywhere. Yesterday while I was dozing on the deck of my cabin, I heard the bushes rumble as something crashed thru them, I opened my eyes face to face with a huge Nyala, a horse sized type of antelope. We shockenly stared at each other, both of us in complete surprise, then he shifted to the left and sauntered away. It was only then that I got my wit's about me to grab the camera and snap two pics of him as he sauntered off around the corner of the cabin. I got up and tried to take a few more pictures, but he was gone thru the bushes. Later at lunch I showed my pics of him to other tourists two cabins down from mine and they identified him, and said he had gone by their cabin too, but they didn't have a camera out on their deck when he went by. A half hour ago, as I was checking my pictures on my camera I was visited by a mama warthog and three of her children, I've seen a lot of them too.
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