The airstrip was alive with a large biomass of mammals this morning, but the light just couldn’t come to life behind that cloud.
And still the giraffe come to the airstrip. Is it to socialise? Or do they feel a connection to be with other plains game? Or wha,t as there’s no food for them on the strip?
This zebra mare is lucky to have got away with her life. Her injury speaks for itself. It was either caused by a lion’s claw or a tree stump, while running away from lions. Which ever way, she’s lucky! And this probably happened when she was heavily pregnant with this little one.
With all the tall grass providing so much cover I was lucky to find the Nduna pride on Banyini. They moved into the shade of one of the Sickle bush thickets to rest. Here the ground is still bare and provides a cool comfortable resting place.
I headed back to camp to fix a puncture and other vehicle repairs. Actually puncture repairs have become a thing of the past. I now have this liquid in all tyres and in the last 3 months have only had 2 punctures. Pretty impressive compared to the 2 or 3 punctures a week before.
At dusk the lions had moved into the open around the edge of Banyini pan and were spaced out there. With full bellies they had no reason to rush anything, not that lions have ever been known to rush anything, except when feeding. And so they watched the sun set in their own leisurely time.
With this being the only cloud in the sky to provide something of a sunset, strangely enough I found some giraffe on the airstrip to oblige.
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