Wildcast

It’s amazing the number of stunning sunrises and sunsets we’re having at the moment. Just about everyone is brilliant. But then it seems the light for the rest of the day is up to maggots.

This morning I spent dawn at Malilangwe dam with the hippos as they returned from their night of foraging and settled in at the dam for a day of rest. Of course I saw them all again later when I went paddling around midday.

I was only on half a mission to find the elephant herds today, but didn’t venture all the way south as time wasn’t on my side. With the roads in the condition they’re in at the moment, travel is slow and very uncomfortable and I fear the roads will be even worse in the south. Tomorrow I plan to take on the south!

In the late afternoon 4 white rhino were spending their time grazing around Chekwa pan on the small area of short grass surrounding the pan. They prefer to graze on the shorter grasses where they use their flat square lips to pull the grass rather than their teeth like most other grazers.

White-faced ducks were chilling out at Hwata pan preening madly for all the time I was there.

The airstrip was back to its normal happy chaos of impala, wildebeest, zebra and giraffe. At dusk, unfortunately it was already too dark to film, the impala youngsters were racing around and stotting, the zebra foal was sprinting up and down the strip and the wildebeest calves were chasing each other. Definitely a kids party!