Thank you: steamtrainfan, Flutterby, harrys, Bushcraft, Bush Brat, Hawkeyes, nan, Amoli, Heksie, Toko for your kind words.
Amoli: Our Photo program makes a motion Photo of a sequence of taken photos
Heksie: the Elephant did take a mud bath before it went into the water chasing the Hippos away…we saw this on the 8th of July.
After a short night, filled with roaring Lions we walked to the reception to get ready for the Morning Drive. We have had good experiences on the previous Morning Drives during our last trip that we were so excited. What would we see…?
Because we had heard the roaring Lions in the S100 area we asked the driver to go in that direction….luckily the driver took the H1-3 and turned of at the S100 turnoff.
The first animal we saw was a scrub hare, it was gone before we could take a photo…..but a few minutes later we could take lots of photos.
We saw our first Lion of the day, but wait no it wasn’t one Lion it were 5 male Lions playing in the early morning…one of the Lions had one eye but seemed to be the group leader, we called him Nelson.
We stayed with the Lions for 20 minutes, in the meantime a lot of cars had arrived and were trying to pass the truck the drive blocked the road a bit so we could take some photos, while the Lions went down to the river bed we drove on…we wondered what would be next…after such a fantastic start of the morning.
At the next turn I suddenly yelled STOP, our next sighting appeared, it was just as wonderful as the previous one: two Cheetahs sitting next to the road.
In some way the pictures didn’t turn out being of good quality…I was a bit disappointed once I saw them again when we returned home and watched them on the pc.
After the two Cheetahs disappeared into the bushes we drove on….cars passing us…there goes our advantage of a head start.
