The goal of the day is to spend a whole long day looking at wild animals on a safari. There are few options, either to go from 6am to 9am or from 3pm to 6pm since during the lunch time it is too hot and all the animals are hiding. Well but we wanted to take a long day to get the most out of it and to avoid driving back and fourth and to avoid paying entrance twice. So, we started at 9, our guide was waiting for us with safari car, our lunch was packed, planning to get back no sooner than 6 in the evening. The plan was to spot some wild life before noon, have a picnic at the park and then do more game drive in the afternoon. Plan was good :)
The day ended up being long and not very productive as far as game spotting goes. We did see giraffes on quite many occasions. Somehow they always go around in threes :) Saw them far and close and in the bushes and on the roads. Then we saw a big herd of blue waterbeests or also called gnu. Then 2 ostriches, whole lot of baboons, we saw zebras, then steenbock, impala, kudu, sable, jackal, crocodiles, one lonely elephant, warthog. There was one hippo hiding in the water, but they don't come out of the water during the day. Now, the most exciting of all, there were lions - but they were too far away to spot them properly, all we saw was a yellow spot under a bush far away. Supposedly there were 4 lions around the bush, 2 male and 2 female, people at the viewing point had been following them since this morning. We were hoping they would get thirsty at some point and come closer to where the water is, but that did not happen :( And again we did not see any rhino :( nor buffalo :( All this has to wait till Serengeti park in Tanzania then!
This long day ended with a beautiful sunset on our way home. Quick shower in our treehouse and another 3 course dinner followed. At dinner time an older lady from Alaska joined us. She is working here as a volunteer for couple of weeks and she filled us in on the local volunteer work around here. Oh it all sounds so interesting. Tomorrow we will try to go to the village and visit the Red Cross volunteer camp there.
After dinner we went to help the volunteer lady who is laying salt out for the animals at the water pond behind our treehouse. She first lays the salt on the ground and then sweeps all the traces so in the morning they can check who has visited the site during the night. Apparently the animals need salt because this is hard to get naturally and they need it due to such warm weather. Lady knew to say that last night there were 4 buffaloes and hyenas there. Just last week they had some lions visiting and elephants are quite common as well.
Just as I'm writing this there is an elephant walking around in our back-yard :) It is dark so I can just hear it, tried to spot it as well under the light but no luck. It must be about 20 meters away, but it is too dark here to see it. And yes there was one local guy with me, my heart rate jumped to the skies when I heard the noise and I would not have dared to go out checking all by myself.
But now off to bed as tomorrow will be another productive and challenging day ahead :D
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