Skinny dipping elephants: Video

The elephant performed but the lions remained elusive.

Manyari and the youngsters spent the whole night holed up in the hills near Lesililije spring sleeping off their over laden bellies.
We also searched for Nduna and the lactating lioness but no joy. The young male that was with them at dawn headed south from the hills off on his own mission.
In the early evening the elephants came to drink at Nduna dam and of course the males just had to take themselves swimming in the moonlight. To see this at night is a whole new experience and stunningly evocative with our filming lights. I think I’m actually going to have to spend some time with the elephant at night as images of them in the dark at a wonderful dimension to their lives and they do become such well sculptured beasts in that light.
That was our action for the night as the clouds swept in at dawn.

We spent some time on Banyini following this impala herd. The females are now heavily pregnant and will be dropping in the next few days. Unfortunately the rain drove us home, although none of the impala looked like they would drop today.

The youngsters were having fun chasing after each other and doing their anti-predator stott. All in the name of fun.

I’ve managed to film 3 impala births over the years but now need to shoot one with my new HD (High Definition) equipment. So will spend the next few mornings working at that.