Daily Archive for December 24th, 2006

It was almost a bad hair day!

I was filming the buffalo this afternoon and just about to put the camera away when I noticed one of the switches on the wrong setting. This meant all that footage would have been useless, so I thought. I wasn’t too concerned as the footage wasn’t anything unique, but back at base I found it all to be just fine.

This morning Mandlovu and her herd were near Lisililije spring. We followed them into the hills as far as we could. And a ways up there found another spring that they were using and this time the cows were dominating the fresh water from the spring keeping the youngsters away.

With them moving out of range deeper into the hills, I took the girls to go check out some other springs. Chikwelane is flowing pretty strongly. There weren’t any elephant there at the time but they are using this spring too.

I was told about another pan to the south of the reserve that was a good spot for black rhino. It was a pan I didn’t know about. Anyway I spent the afternoon there with most of the time just waiting. Eventually a lone warthog boar came for his afternoon session followed by the herd of buffalo.

And by dusk I was still out of luck with black rhino, so called it a day.