Wildcast

Those fat cats are STILL fat and still lazying around in much the same area they were yesterday, just north of the airstrip.
Magwaza has left Manyari and her boys, and this evening they’ve all been roaring crazily and I can even hear them now as I sit here typing.

With the lions providing for a little less than anything exciting, I bolted east in search of elephant. I had a whole pile of their tracks heading through the hills just west of Nduna, but think they must be holed up in the hills with no access for me.

I carried on through the hills to Lojaan dam. The dam was quiet and even my friendly hippo wasn’t there, so I took a stroll around the dam. Just as I got to the waters edge my hippo mate bolted out the water in a splashing display and then settled down as if nothing had happened. The dude must have been resting underwater when I arrived.

Carrying on through the hills to Nduna dam there was no further sign of elephants and only these 2 impala rams sizing each other up.

Having checked on the lions towards dusk still in the same place, I took myself to Banyini for what I hoped to be a spectacular sunset. I got all set up to shoot time lapse of the sunset, which was almost nice but just didn’t flare up into a major spectacle.

While I had the camera locked off filming the sunset, I was strolling around the area. Of course being sure not to get myself in the shot. Then One-Tusk and her family came strolling out the mopanie into the open area of Banyini as they headed to the pan to drink. (One-tusk wasn’t in the mood to come and hassle me.)