An early start was well worth it, as by 8am it was already seriously hot.
But today success was not on our side. Well definitely not in the morning.
We didn’t find any rhino, although Darryl had a fleeting glimpse of 2 backsides disappearing into the thick undergrowth.
So it was we accomplished little filming with the girls this morning, and we were back at camp by 10am, very hot!
Midday the storm struck. It wasn’t so much a storm but a massive cloud burst. In half an hour we had 2inches of rain.
We took advantage of it all to film the girls and me trying to work when the downpour was at its peak. We got totally soaked in our attempt to put the cover over my car. But all was fun.
I dropped the girls off at home completely rained out and longing for a cup of hot chocolate while I headed down to Banyini keen to film animals in the rain.
All the way there the roads were raging torrents. Many new streams appeared out of nowhere. And even the Simbiri stream, usually dry was now raging away about knee deep.
And then as I arrived on Banyini and found some giraffe, impala and zebra, the rains stopped. So there I was all soaked for nothing.
After the downpour a family of jackal and a bachelor herd of impala gathered on the roadside, which had very little cover and more open than the surrounding 4ft high grasslands. They really weren’t up much just milling around each other.
With so much water around I had little chance of any off road driving for the afternoon and headed back to camp to carry on with vehicle maintenance.
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