Daily Archive for August 29th, 2008

Typical African Sunset: Video


I sure got around today trying to get in touch with everything as the days are now really hot and most activity is to be found around the waterholes. But the elephant stayed away till after dark except for a couple of bulls drinking at Hwata pan in the heat of the day.
Dwarfed

Early morning and late afternoon had me searching for any signs of the dogs. Again I came up short.
In the afternoon I took a walk to Sosigi hill from Nhoro pan walking through really dense bush and half the time walking bent over to get through narrow pathways in the thick bush. Luckily I didn’t encounter any beasts using the same paths as me coming the other way. It’s really dense in there and I hoped by chance if the dogs did have a den there I’d bump into it. But it was just more bush after bush.

Stripes in the woodland
Driving through the hills the Ochna bushes are in full flower at the moment. The flowers only last a few days but they litter the rocky floors adding magical colour.

Yellow litter
I was nearly home when I saw all these, and more, vultures perched in trees. I didn’t search much in the area as the vultures might just be roosting communally or if there is a kill they’ll be waiting it out and at dawn I should know what’s happening. Till tomorrow….

Roost and/or waiting

It was only as the sun was setting that I realised I hadn’t filmed anything all day. And all that was left to film was another African sunset.