I tried to make it out early this morning and hadn’t gone 500m when my car packed in again. But this time I seemed to have sorted out a quick fix, although I still wasn’t sure what the problem was. When I did manage to get it to the workshop later in the day, it turned out the coil had packed in. Not bad for a coil that was 21years old and had done 350,000kms. I sure do believe in my Toyota’s.
The dogs must have been waiting for me, cos even though I got there somewhat later than usual, they were only just rousing on my arrival.
Puzzles took the pack south west hunting in the same area they hunted last night. It’s a fairly bare area because of the sodic soils and the impala love it. It’s also criss-crossed with many dongas (ravines). While negotiating one of these dongas I lost the dogs and wasn’t aware they were on the chase.
When I did find them they’d already killed and were just finishing off the scraps. Then the rains came and the dogs took cover. I also headed for the trees as the rain came and went for about an hour.
Just then a single hyaena came strolling past the dogs. Well his Thursday morning stroll was soon rudely interrupted and the last I saw of him was 11 dogs hot on his backside. And then I heard the wailing. He must have got off lightly cos the wailing didn’t last long.
The dogs were well fed and spent the rest of their day recovering.
The sun was already beginning to set when the pups got on the move. Puzzles and Jiggy followed reluctantly and I lost the pack in some horrendous bush as it got dark.
But it might not be the end of the day for the dogs, they could quite easily hunt with the half moon tonight.
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