We had great fun with and after, the elephants today.
The elephant herds were still in the same area on the Nyamsaan river system. The vegetation is fairly varied but I think it’s the longer grass here that is keeping them. And of course all the mud wallows along the drainage system.
They were all having a huge party this morning in a wallow and eventually after they left I suggested to the girls we should take over from them. It didn’t take much encouragement as we’d been sitting in the hot sun filming them. The fun they’d been having was hugely contagious and in we went to continue the fun.
Of course they say mud is good for the skin. Well I’m not sure I’m feeling any different since the wallow but I sure was refreshed at the time. Luckily there was fairly clean water just downstream from the wallow where we were able to rinse off before heading back to camp.
In the afternoon we headed back into the area and found 4 black rhino together. This was a different group to any of the others we’d been seeing. Suddenly in the last week I’ve been seeing black rhino nearly every day and all different individuals. I so love these energetic, temperamental, unpredictable beasts.
And the Nduna lion pride were lying up in the hills not far from the rhino. They were being the typical lazy cats that lions so often are.
2 young females were grooming each other, when the one got up, stepped over the other and then stood there urinating on her friend. She was just too lazy to move further away so as no to target her friend. And her friend just lay there too. Is this how the King of Beasts behaves?
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