Spud was at Lojaan dam earlier in the day yesterday and first had to move the green soupy layer of duckweed before he could drink.
I spent today in camp having a day off. But it of course it ended up in me doing what I just love to hate - working in my office.
After all day inside those 4 walls, I’m fortunate to have to luxury to leave my back door and drive away into the reserve and instantly be lost in dreamland.
Down on the Chiredzi river I encountered this lone elephant bull stripping bark off the Acacia he’d just felled. He seemed totally at peace and instantly took all the anxiety out of me.
Golly I sure do appreciate having this freedom to disappear into the wilderness whenever I wish.
12th August 2000
Tjololo kept true to form having a good rest only leaving the carcass once he’d polished off most of it the remains falling to the hyaena waiting below. Amazingly over the 2 days that he had the carcass the only hyaena that discovered it was the one that initially stole it from him, and it stayed to the last.
Carcass finished Tjololo headed north around midnight and was on the move until dawn. Gladly he was pushing to the very north of his normal territory and then moved downstream along the Sand river.
Held back by the Sand river we could only listen to the awesome fighting of lions that went on for several hours. Presumably they were fighting over a carcass but to be fighting for so long makes me think there may have been other motives.
The action is sure out there with rhino’s fighting last night and lions tonight. Somewhere along the line we have to get lucky. Hopefully the next will be Tjololo handing out a beating to Masuli.
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