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And so the anxiety thickens! What’s up with the dogs?
I only flew later in the morning to look for the dogs, giving them last night’s hunting time and this mornings hunting time to hopefully head home. But there was no such luck. They were actually further west from where I had them yesterday. Deeper into in bad, dangerous country. I just feel so helpless knowing there’s nothing I can do but hope they’ll all make it safely back to Malilangwe soon.

I plan to fly at dawn tomorrow to catch them on the hunt so I can hopefully count heads. This not knowing how they’re doing is really eating me. Ruins my whole day, well actually turning to week now. I didn’t realise how attached I was to these dogs, until I wasn’t able to be by their sides every day. But it’s more the anxiety of not knowing if they’re all okay.
I seemed to spend the rest of the day in a dazed state with no real focus. Not good! And consequently hardly took any photos.
I did film some Dassies sunning themselves at dawn. And then at dusk at Bandama pan these Sandpipers were constantly at war with each other protecting their piece of real-estate. Prime country along those shorelines for great hunting of millions of tiny bugs.

A large herd of buffalo were just leaving the pan on my arrival, all looking to have had one glorious wallow.

I stayed at the pan for the full moon rising. That was a real treat as it rose over the pan and then silhouetted a Marabou Stork roosting in a tree as it floated up over the horizon.