3rd November 2000
Rain 22mm.
The cloudy weather was with us all day and as we were about to leave camp the drizzle started but didn’t last long and the sun was soon out for sunset.
Tjololo and the Newington female were a long way further south. Tjololo’s interests were firmly set on hunting. He was on the trail of some impala for ages before he eventually met up with them. But again forgetting his professional approach he charged in to the herd without success. Having missed he followed their trail again for over an hour moving around in circles and often onto the route he’d just followed. We then wondered if he’d given up and was trying to follow up on his girl. She in the meantime was frantically following his trail that took her around in circles too.
Eventually they met up and were back to business with a big bang as a huge clap of thunder struck right over us. A major storm was about to strike. It did and we got our cover up just in time. Dale didn’t make it as he rushed back to camp but got hit by the brunt of the storm. He spent the whole morning drying out all his stuff.
The electric storm didn’t bode well for the Data line, which went down, and so the cam too, without our knowledge.
With the weather having cleared by dawn we headed to the hyaena den and were excited to see a mother suckling 2 cubs and there were another 2 cubs playing around. All the cubs nearly 2 months. So expect to see more of them.
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