One way to live out a full life is to make a habit out of getting up at the crackers. I really had to think back to remember if what we did this morning wasn’t what we did yesterday – if you’re getting what I’m saying. Anyway, it was still dark when we headed for the dogs where Kim left them yesterday. Just when you think you’re getting to know their tricks, they pull another disappearing act out the bag. I was up and down, on top of koppies, trying my best to pick them up, but it was no use, these dogs have pulled another fast one on us. Even when things don’t go as planned, there’s always something else to see or experience out in the wild – you just have to open your eyes.
We ran into a crash of rhinos, four adults and a baby, just enough time to catch a photo, but they were a little shy and moved off like every other animal today. I managed to get back in time for another one of Jonathan Leemings’ scorpion workshops. This time we had one of the worlds most venomous scorpions to inspect, the Parabuthus Transvaalicus, a thick tailed scorpion that looks like he’s tail is on steroids. These creepy crawlies are so interesting, one can spend a lifetime studying them. I headed home to fix the brakes on “Dozer”, he has new tyres all round so he’s looking like a real mean machine. I thought that someone was trying to get rid of me when my brakes vanished because of a pipe that was cut through, but it turns out it was the new tyre that chafed the pipe.
The clouds rolled in at noon and the forecasted rain hit like a ton of bricks, the water was almost flooding in our back door. Our internet took to the sky, as did the electricity when the lighting and thunder hit. So good thing everything was up and running again by 19:00 for the story to continue. It’s great to go out after a storm and we found Magwaza hunting near Nyari pan, but I kid you not, she moved into the bush right in front of us and it was like she had a trapdoor trick up her fur. A day of complete disappearances – there’s nothing like Africa!
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