Wildcast

The weather played game today and the rain stayed away. But that was about all that played game.
Actually we saw more yesterday in the hour and a half that we were out than we saw all day today.
It was another cool overcast day and even so this buffalo bull was in the wallow and then promptly took out his frustrations on a nearby bush. When I got out the car to photograph him he was still engrossed in his bush, but then he noticed me, made one step in my direction and veered away. Good boy!

There was a group of giraffe on Banyini and that was our quota for the day.

Not an elephant was to be seen all day, which was actually our mission to search for them. The rain has headed them somewhere and left not a sign of any elephant. I can only think they must have headed deeper into the hills.

I did have the camera out early in the day to film these water droplets. They sure looked like diamonds lying on the mat of algae. But what had caused them to make such big water droplets? They looked like mercury balancing on the leaves of the algae.
I was just stunned to see the amazing clarity and beauty of the magnified algal leaves with each droplet acting as a magnifying glass.

We spent the last hour at Bandama pan hoping to see an elusive black rhino but were only entertained by Common Sandpipers bobbing along the shoreline picking away at the myriad of tiny insects.
It was of course great to be out in the field all day, but not the most productive day as a filmmaker.