Out second morning game drive

Since the car alarm would go off again in the evening, I did some experimentation and discovered that the alarm would not go off if the car remained unlocked. Now, the car would lock itself if it detected no key activity, and then the alarm would start, but if we left a door just slightly ajar it worked out great.

After a quiet night and some restful sleep, our next morning started out with another game drive. I had mapped another circular route, but the track in the beginning was very challenging for both us and the car due to adverse road conditions. We also didn't really see much, except some birds. There was a cool bit of track that led us straight into the Etosha Plain, a flatland that would be filled with water and turn into a lake with sufficient rainfall, but it was bone dry when we went there - and we were able to drive a solid bit of way into the "lake".

Game drives are always a bit hit and miss. The previous day we had met some others on a self drive, and they had seen quite literally nothing, so when we told them where to spot the elephants we encountered earlier they immediately went off into that direction. Today we didn't really see anyone, but as we were already heading back towards the camp, we spotted a beautiful black rhino, identifiable by the looong beautiful horn they have.

In South African game reserves they need to cut off all the rhinos horns all the time, as even 2cm of horn is enough for a poacher to take a rhino's life. Here in Etosha, poaching is a thing of the past, though we learned that this was a rather recent development. As a consequence, all of the parks rhinos were able to wear their horns with pride.

This particular rhino was very close to us, and after observing it for more than 15min decided to cross the road right in front of us! It was a sight to behold 😍 As a last attraction on our morning game drive we came upon a secretary bird, a large local bird that prefers to eat snakes. We got to see it in action as it was hunting and eating a snake.Meer informatie