Wildcast

The elephants are now making contact with me.

It was another whole day with the elephants, except for an emergency pit stop at camp to fix 2 punctures, getting there just in time before the second one went completely flat.
And eat and eat all day is what the elephants were up to.

Parked in some shade minding my own business this bull sauntered up to my car, touched the bull-bar with his lower forehead and then gave it a little shove. He then backed off seemingly pleased with himself. Then came back and did it again. Now really happy. Then he moved to my side of the vehicle and came towards me, spun around and swished his tail across the bonnet.

He really just seemed to be testing what this thing was all about. Next he came right up to my door and was about to give it a little shove, which would no doubt have left a big dent, when I gave him a little shove on his forehead. He back off not really phased and moved on. What a dude! I followed him a little while later and he just ignored me. So who won the duel?

Earlier he had come to me when I was sitting in front of the car getting low angle photos of him. He really wasn’t sure of this thing sitting there. Stepping closer he would then throw his long trunk out at me stopping only inches away. Of course at the same time splatting me with mud. I initially thought I had lots of space to spare but taking the wide angle lens away from my eye, I realised the dude was right here! But he didn’t mean any harm and moved on.

At dawn and dusk I had the lioness and her 3 cubs from the Nduna pride, resting up at Chimize pan and not up to much. They moved on at dusk, the lioness calling softly. The rest of the pride were probably in the area somewhere.