After having such an awesome day with the elephant yesterday, today seemed rather dull.
I suppose it really was sort of dull. The elephant didn’t get up to much, spending the whole day feeding in the Albizia woodland and hardly moving at all. And they had 2 long periods of rest. Probably catching up for no rest yesterday.
At one of these rest periods I was parked in some shade and Mandlovu came into the shade right next to me. The rest of her herd soon followed. They stood around throwing dust and unfortunately the wind was blowing the wrong way so I too got covered.
They were all now only a few meters from my vehicle when the 3 small calves decided they were going to lie down for their rest, which they did. This was truly amazing. They trust me so much that they’re not only happy to dust themselves in MY shade but the calves will lie down and sleep with me right there! And they must have spent an hour here resting until Brutus came and upset the party. But such amazing trust makes all the long hours pay off. Truly awesome!
Brutus was being his normal self testing me whenever we confronted each other around a bush. But it really is just a game for him.
It was only as the sun was setting that the herds got on the move heading east towards Lesililije spring. Or they might even head on to Nduna dam.
On my way home I came across this black rhino on Banyini. These guys are so elusive and normally only come out to drink after dark. He didn’t seem too concerned with my presence and moved on marking his territory.
Earlier in the morning I had the Nduna pride hiding up in some thick mopanie and they were SO well fed. And as I watched the black rhino they lions started getting active as I heard them all roaring to the east.
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