At Nyawutsi hide we then spotted the first car as Timon was a bit concerned already that maybe some causeways were not crossable but as already said most of the smaller streams in the North were already nearly dry. Nyawutsi is a hide extreme far away but always a must for us as same is having such a wonderful view and today we were lucky in even discovering two water monitors one took a sunbath
and the other one was more preferring a nice dip into a smaller runlet which was overflowing the koppies
funny was that the monitor was hanging with the back of its body in the water whilst the rest was lying on the rocks.
We also spotted from the hide water dikkops, hamerkops as well as a couple of raptors circling in the sky but all of these birds were too far away for decent shots. Meanwhile we reached the Shingwedzi river and now the road was leading along the river with some nice loops to allow closer views into the riverbed in one we discovered a goliath heron,
on a dense bush an African hoopoe was willing to sit still long enough for a couple of shots
and to Timon’s delight we also came across a nicely posing and extreme close African fish eagle
and also at that sighting we took a couple of pictures
until same decided it was enough and flew away
but today we were successful in finding two more fish eagles during our drive.
As all the other rivers even the Shingwedzi was still flowing but in fact same was by far not that full as the others in the South nevertheless the view was breathtaking anyway.
to be continued………………………