A few modifications to “Dozer” my 4 x 4, and we were able to take the legendary “Outlaws” (Bloggers on the website) out on the drive yesterday afternoon. They are in fact the in-laws and it is wonderful to have them out here on Malilangwe Wildlife Reserve. We set out to find the dogs where I had left them in the morning, they were still there and still very sleepy. After yawning and stretching the sleeping sickness out, they came back to life. Playing with each other was not enough to keep these pups occupied, so the male and female took them on a walk about. The dogs went tearing off after a Red Hartebeest even though they are too big for the dogs to take down. They just love messing animals around for the sport of it. One of their favourites is to mess around with the zebras, they are too big for the dogs to kill and the zebras know it, but they just love the conflict.
After the zebras, that still was not enough and across a small ravine was a crash of Rhino! Wonderful to see, there were five or six of them and the dogs just had to rev them up a bit. Anyway, no harm done and all in the name of fun, we left the dogs at sundown.
Manyari was back up in the hills last night and this morning she was in the exact same hill, just no way to get to her. I hope she is still fine, it doesn’t seem she has moved a muscle. Maybe she is finally going to have those cubs we have been hoping for. This mornings drive was not too fruitful with a light drizzle every now and then. I did my regular river drive-by hoping to get a hit, but things were quiet.
We still can’t catch any hyena action, Sosigi is normally the spot for that, but I will keep trying. With the cloudy weather, there’s no sun to beat down and draw the animals to the watering holes. I managed to pick up some footage on some Impalas giving it horns, which looked like a practice run more than anything. Tonight… we go frogging!
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