For sure the mud had been thrown everywhere
and then one of the bulls decided that he needed an extensive wallow in the far too small mud puddle whilst another bull appeared between the mopane bushes
and then also the other bull soon took a dive into the mud not that the one who just arrived will stole the best place to be. At least we had a good laugh and after quite a long time we carried on
and stopped at N’wambu which is always such a nice and open place and here we were surprised by a yellow bishop unfortunately a bit too far away, however, we were more than happy in spotting that bird specie again.
The rest of our drive along the H1-6 was then more than quiet and as we still had a bit time available until we could check in we paid the Shipandane causeway a visit and luckily same was overflowing and consequently lots of waterbirds were willing to be photographed and at such places they are not that shy and always allowed nice close ups.
At that time of the day we were all alone there and had the causeway all to ourselves as same can be extreme busy especially in the evening so we were in no hurry
and enjoyed that place tremendously especially still having in mind all the causeways we had missed due to the closed roads and rain we experienced at the begin of our trip.
A couple of grey herons were around and so were the hamerkops
who watched the yellow billed stork carefully whilst fishing
and we detected quite a lot crocodiles in the water and in the distance on the other side lots of water dikkops in the shade.
We left the hide itself behind but paid Pioneer hide a visit as in the evening there is always backlight and we are nearly blind but so far we never had luck there, however, the view is lovely but at least a beautiful dragon fly was around.
to be continued………………………..