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At around 5pm we decided to go to the Biyamiti viewpoint 2,5km down the road from camp for the sunset, but on arrival found another family had the same idea, so with pelicans decided to continue on a down the road to where it opens up to a view from the car.
5 minutes later we decided to turn and head back to the viewpoint with the hope that the other crowd had moved on, but as luck would have it, a parade of faulty ellies had arrived on the road which instantly set the Cow off.
“STOP!”, “GO!”, “WAIT!”
“Relax, I will move past them slowly”
“NO………………….. I can’t watch this!”
I inched slowly past the ellies, which were both sides of the road, while the Cow huffed and puffed at me
“That one is flapping it’s ears”, “That one is going to charge!”
But I just continued forward at snail’s pace while focused on their body language.
Suddenly Bushpig shouted “LEOPARD!”, which gave me a big skrik and I swerved all over the road.
“WHAT, where?!”
“Where’s the camera!”
A leopard was cruising along the road towards us, but the Cow was still focused on an elephant
“GO, that elephant is coming!”
“Where?”
“THERE!”
“Relax, it’s a teenager and it’s going to walk past us”
“Where’s the leopard gone?”
The leopard had now seen the ellies and he was walking off the road, so I went forward again as we were going to lose sight of him, but the Cow was still flapping
“THE ELEPHANT!”
“Stuff the elephant, there’s a leopard!”
The leopard ducked off into a bush that was fairly close to the road, however it was a mission to get a view of him.
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A second later the other family that was at the viewpoint arrived, turned, and reversed in next to us.
“Leopard”
The Cow was still watching elephants though
“THEY ARE COMING AROUND US!”
I was so focused on the leopard and hadn’t paid much attention to the ellies that were now walking in front and behind our car.
The occupants of the other car seamed to get a skrik also and the driver started his car.
I wasn’t worried though as it was still mainly teenage ellies, however seconds later the one teenager lost it’s cool, trumpeted and waved its trunk at us which gave the driver of the other car a panic attack and he took off at pace down the road while the Cow dropped a few….
“#@^*” “@#%*”
But I wasn’t moving as the elephants had gotten the attention of the leopard, especially when one started chowing on the same bush he was hiding under.
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Seconds later a few ellies spotted the leopard, paused, trumpeted, and then charged at him.
The leopard was way too quick, but the fat ellies were highly excited and they continued with their charge while trumpeting until the leopard was out of sight which had us all laughing, I think the Cow more from relief though.
I started our tradition fire as we got back into camp, and then we all went to watch some ellies along the fence line in front of our units while we still had some light left.
10 minutes later a storm type wind came through, so I charged off to pull some wood off the fire before it really got going but roasted some fingers in the process. I ended up with a flat fire and a pelican as the weather had definitely turned for the worse again, so we ended up with an early night.
To be continued 
