Drinks on the Rocks: Video

No morning ritual today but I did get a puncture later in the day.
At dawn the dogs were still resting up and had huge bellies. Obviously Puzzles had killed big last night.

While they were still resting we heard crunching behind us. The dogs heard it too and slowly gathered themselves moving slowly towards the sound en masse, with ears flattened. Then the sprint and soon we heard the painful yeowls of a hyaena that had tried to move in on the dogs kill, well the scraps there of. It was an adult male impala that Puzzles had killed last night.
After chasing off the hyaena the pups continued to play in the area and soon the whole pack had passed out in a shady spot next to water.
We headed north and found a big breeding herd of elephants near Chindigova. Mandlovu was there with her family. Chip sure is a growing lad and looking in such grand shape. We rested with the herds in the shade of a Wild Seringa for some time.
As one, the herds moved on east and finding themselves a mud wallow. Of course the young bulls soon dominated the situation.

Back in the hills another small herd of elephant had found themselves a hole in the rocks full of water. This was left over rain water from about a week ago. Having bathed and dust bathed the herd took time out in the shade of Brachystegia and then slowly proceeded to debark the tree almost totally denuding it of it’s bark. It will die! And soon won’t provide any shade.

It was back to the dogs in the afternoon where we’d left them and they had no plans on moving. But that was until a herd of impala almost walked over them. The chase was on but nothing came of it.

With all now fully awake they headed east hunting but soon the pups had called it off and were into their own games.
Another chase followed at sunset on the edge of Chiloveka dam and we left them in the dark milling around.