Usual morning routine of 6 AM awakening, 6:30 AM breakfast - more often now in the area called the boma (meeting place) - with a wonderful campfire and canvas camp chairs. Out for the morning safari by 7 AM. This morning's safari was rather mundane compared to the last few days, especially yesterday. Now, if we could spot the cheetah, we could return home quite content.
Our tents - now no longer safe on boardwalks,
but flush to the ground.
Still the same plush quilted beds - complete with hot water bottles
and mosquito netting.
Our chefs prepare the daily brunch of omelets made-to-order.
Have you ever seen melon so beautifully presented?
We did see puku antelope, the daffasa waterbuck, warthogs, impala, puff adder tracks, a hippo pool that reeked of sulphur dioxide; white-fronted bee eaters, a martial eagle and some hilarious vervet monkeys. On the way back to camp, we were besieged by biting flies - hoping that none of them were tsetse flies. (Oh well, guess we'll know by tomorrow morning if we survive the sleeping sickness).
Puku antelope.
Daffasa waterbuck.
Hippo sulphur pool.
Not a very happy camper.
White-fronted bee eater.
Vervet monkey.
Guinea fowl.
Martial eagle.
Back out in the evening, but getting very frustrating trying to take good pictures in the dark. We did spot some hyenas, but again, very hard to get a photo.
Sinister, ugly-looking hyena.
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