15 December 2015
After the
guests enthusiasm at seeing the rhino we were spoilt with four more sightings
of the white rhino today. Eight in total really gave everyone something to
smile about.
We also had a
lovely sighting of ten giraffe together with a few zebra and fifty odd Impala.
Two of the giraffe were busy necking, a rather weak play-fighting done in slow
motion. This gave the guests more laughs than concern but always fun to watch.
Also seen were
elephants, kudu, waterbuck, zebra, wildebeest, klipspringer,
steenbok, common duiker, dwarf mongoose, buffalo, Impala, hippo,
Vervet monkey and hyena.
Birds included
the malachite Kingfisher, Pied Kingfisher, saddle billed stork, dark
chanting goshawk, grey headed hornbill, white breasted cormorants and
lilac breasted roller.
16 December 2015
The final
morning which was taken up with a leopard search. We responded to two sightings
but no luck!!!
Sometimes
that's the way it goes!!!
Our highlight
was at mestel dam where we found three bull elephants having a drink. They
seemed to be finished as they walked off but then one turned and walked
straight into the water submerging himself.
This was the
queue for the other two to do the same. Now while the two were busy play
fighting each other the larger one made up a game of his own. Namely eight pin
hippo bowling!!!
The rules are
simple you just walk straight up to eight hippos and walk right through forcing
all the hippos to scurry in all directions, then if one hippo is silly enough
to pop up to close you smack your trunk down on the water scarring him away.
With hippos
shown whose boss he went back to submerging himself with the other two ellies.
Also we had two
new species of mammal for the tour in the form of bushbuck and common reedbuck.
Then it was time
to say farewell to Ming and Qhan. Travel safe guys and great to have met you.
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