Buffalo Paradise: Video

Time is positively steamrolling on to new years eve. All resolutions get placed on the table, most of which, fall to the ground with no more than a sigh of a relief. Out in the wild the only resolution is survival and reproduction. For us, maybe we should reproduce all the positive things we have developed in our lives in the next generation.

After the thought of the day, the early morning greeted me with bursts of short showers of rain. That, of course, was not a deterrent as I had my mind set on the wild dogs. Those dudes were too swift and I couldn’t even get a smidgen of signal on them. I continued to explore the Northern region of the reserve finding a breeding herd of Buffalo. The vegetation is so lush they looked like a herd of cows lying and rolling around in a meadow.

I went a long way through the hills before I found any sign of life, it was a much cooler day so the need for animals to water was not so urgent. After being spied on by an elephant in the bushes as I was changing a flat, I moved on to see a few waterbuck heading down to Malilangwe dam and decided to complete my inspection of the dam level.

Again, even the waterbuck seem to be a little more docile than usual. A herd of Impala were lying on the side of the road, they hardly moved and I was noticing how the little babies are not so little anymore - they are growing up fast.