Monday, March 28, 2016

Any hippopotamus will do....

Today's day started out pretty amazing, aside from waking up at 2am because I had to pee super badly and the moon was like a spot light to the face. 

Our morning game drive picked us up from the tree house and we went out looking for animals. We ended up coming across a hyena and followed it along the road for awhile till we came across the rest of its group. As we were sitting there, a group just a head of us spotted wild dogs! So we got to see the wild dogs again, they were actually hanging out in the roadway calling each other and everything. As we sat there the hyena group came along and the dogs took off. Our guide thought that the hyenas were following the wild dogs, as the wild dogs are quite efficient hunters. While we watched the dogs take off and the hyenas wander around, two males came out from a different area, we were sure that a fight might break out but they ended up taking off with a few females in tow. 


 
We continued to tour around. And saw a young bull elephant cross the river and a number of birds. 

After the drive we ended up going for a bush walk. We didn't see anything alive on the walk, but we did learn about who poops what and the different types of tracks. It was ridiculously hot today!! After the walk we cooled down in our private pool and then had a massage! No napping today! Basically once we were done with massages it was time for our evening drive. 

We basically saw so many hippos! We saw them once it started getting dark munching away on the grass. They are massive beasts! 

Tonight's dinner, was at a bbq pit. I had some springbok which was fantastically delicious! As one of the guys in our jeep said, it tastes like Canadian beef in technicolour! 

Audrey

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