We had one other couple with us which we dropped off half way to our location. The runway was just a sand strip and a shed for a hanger. As we landed an elephant was crossing the end of the runway, thankfully not the middle. I asked the pilot what happens if animals are on the runway, he said that they either go around them or the pick up vehicle chases them off the strip. He did say that a zebra was hit once, and they lost the back axle on the plane, everyone was fine, with the exception to the plane and the zebra.
As we got dropped off, we were loaded into a boat, after a windy way along the river we came to out island lodge! Sorry, no wifi or internet here (hence the late posting).
It's a beautiful rustic lodge, we apparent got one of the better rooms with the view of the river.
Our sunset ride was actually a canoe ride, I can't remember what it's called but it's basically a canoe. I'm not accustom to not paddling so it took me awhile to relax and enjoy the ride.
Believe it or not, that's a full grown frog in the photo above.
The lodge is run on a generator, so they shut off the power over night, which meant no a/c in the night! It wasn't too bad the first night, I managed to sleep through the night and didn't really want to get up! Haha. Although last night it got quite humid and the moon was telling me I should wake up!
Our first full day we went for a long bush walk where we saw a bull elephant, a large number of baboons, numberlus birds and hippos in a small pond area.
We had a relaxing afternoon,with nap and then headed out to the hippo pool for the evening. We saw three different pods of hippos and as we were heading back from watching them, one hippo decided that he wanted to chase the boat. He didn't get close, but it's kind of surprising how far out of the water the hippos can get for their size and they move quite quickly under ththe water!! Sadly I didn't get a video or photo of it but it was definitely something I'll remember.
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