29 July 2015
A new tour and
our first safari of it. We only had a couple of hours and it was dominated by
one sighting.
We found two
young male elephants close to the road and we were enjoying watching them we heard
the familiar breaking of branches.
More
elephants, three more to be precise, two females and a young calf. They moved within
a few meters of us and the adults continued to eat. The youngster had other
ideas trying to suckle from its mum but she didn't want this and kept on
forcibly pushing it away. But this calf was persistent and after being pushed
away four times mum finally gave in and the youngster had a drink.
While this
happened further down the road a family of banded mongoose decided to scurry
across the road.
After drinking
the youngster decided to investigate us coming closer raising its trunk and
having a good smell of us while mum just carried on munching. So lovely a
sighting we stayed for about forty minutes.
Also seen
steenbok, common duiker, kudu, Impala, zebra and warthog.
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