We were woken by Gee, our driver and guide, playing the drums softly at 6 am. He returned for us at 6:30 and we completed a great breakfast by 7 and were on our way. It is certainly not warm in the morning and we had on all our heavy clothes plus they put a blanket and hot water bottle in the truck for each of us. What luxury! First we had to sort out where our 2 main photographers were going to sit, Geno and Paul, next was Lisa who was also taking pictures and I agreed to write down all the animals we saw.
First thing we did was return to the leopard. She was still there and so was the hyena, waiting patiently for his share to fall out of the tree.
Our first sighting was a saddle billed stork but shortly after came the elephants. They are such magnificent creatures but don’t make them mad or get in their way. Sometime during the morning drive we had a female elephant look like it was going to charge us but she did not complete the threat. We were ready to leave if she had come any closer.
We then returned to the leopard again. She was now eating again. She was still eating. The hyena got some, including all the hoofs. The leopard then finished the meal, and climbed down the tree to groom - in front of us, mere 10 paces away.
We also saw wart hogs, cape buffalo, plains Zebra which have brown on the mature adults, cranes, lots of impalas and baboons, Tsessebe antelopes, wildebeests, huge hippos with the occasional egret riding on their backs and several kinds of birds. It was a great morning!
We returned to camp for brunch, a shower and short nap and then were off for the evening drive.
// Thanks Nancy. // Ed.
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