Baboons feast in the rain

The good news is, although I didn’t see the dogs I got a great signal on them.
I had hoped to fly early again but the weather was coming in fast and was sure to blow me to the north pole had I tried my wings up there.

So it was in search of lions. I had tracks around the airstrip and a giraffe right there was intent on something in the nearby bush. It had to be the lioness, but I never did get to see her. It was probably Magwaza on her way back to her cubs and I was keen to see what state she was in health wise and how her teats were looking. But I just wasn’t having luck in finding her.
For the rest of the morning I spent my time running around searching for a signal on the dogs and making sure all my tracking equipment was up to scratch with a plan to fly around midday. The weather was cool and sure to stay that way making flying at the time pretty good.

I had in the meantime picked up a very faint signal on the dogs a long way south, although it seemed to be in the same area as the last 2 days.
Midday came and the clouds had cleared making flying conditions really bumpy and not conducive to my weak stomach. And so we took to Banyini to eye out the plains game where no doubt there was little if anything going on. And so it was!
Eventually we got airborne around 4pm. The winds were blowing strongly from the south but I really wanted to find the dogs.
On getting myself into the sky I soon realised what our dilemma was. A huge storm was coming in fast and furious from the south. But I wanted my dogs and so headed what seemed like straight for the storm. Luckily what looked like rain was just a haze, but beyond that there was REAL rain. Reaching Malevula hill I got a strong signal on the dogs. I so wanted to see them from up there but the storm was approaching fast and I lost my nerve, and headed for home.

Anyway I was relieved that all the technical stuff was working and the dogs still seemed to be on the reserve. All great news! So hopefully tomorrow I’ll get lucky and find them.
We landed just in time and the rain came. But it never turned into much of a rain. Just a drizzle, which made filming a hassle and the rain hardly visible in the shots. When it rains I like it to really rain, otherwise just don’t bother.
But for the baboons the cool wet weather was a relief as they tucked into the flush of everything green.