(Because of the rains today, I had to pull a new video clip I shot a few days ago.)
The rains arrived soon after getting back to camp last night. Sitting with the dogs near Banyini late yesterday I noticed this advancing cloudbank, which just looked like some cooler weather on the way. And yes it did get cooler but only after raining all night.
I had plans on getting out early to the dogs being sure to find them hunting on the open savannah country of Banyini. But with all that rain having fallen I was grounded. It had stopped raining by dawn but the roads would have been like grease and I would only have damaged them even more. And not to mention that there was no ways I would be able to travel off road.
By midday things had dried up or rather soaked up and ventured out. Every little conceivable depression was now a puddle. All the insects were out in force and this rhino midden got its own dose of dung beetles.
But where were the dogs? They were nowhere near Banyini. I eventually located them far in the east, south of Lisillilije in mopanie country. Mopanie trees have a habit of growing on heavy clays, which in wet weather are just waiting to suck up any vehicle that would foolishly venture on them. I managed to find the dogs resting in the mopanie but could only see a few in the thick bush.
Before sunset they performed their greeting ceremony and were off on the hunt.
When they moved on I was happy to make it back to a road and from there I monitored their movements. Waiting for them to make an appearance on the next track I heard impala death cries. They had killed. But 5 minutes later they were on the hunt again crossing the road. It must have been a baby impala, enough for only one dog.
And just then the rains were back. I had to scramble to get my cover over all the camera gear in time and called it a day, not having even taken my camera out the box.
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