Mwamba - Evening

Just before we left Lainey had a surprise encounter with a huge River Monitor Lizard,. It was crawling down the tree trunk at the side of our balcony and it was so big she thought at first it was a Crocodile! She screamed it fell off the tree and fled into the undergrowth. we don’t know who was more surprised, him or Lainey!

We left at 16:00, Phil had heard the Wild Dogs were still in the area so we set out to see them. They were indeed ‘on the road’ and Charles got footage of them playing, rolling about and generally behaving like domesticated Dogs, until they suddenly set off running into the undergrowth together.

Phil tried to follow the, as he’d heard a cry, and we had a fun time driving through the undergrowth but couldn’t make it through the undergrowth although we could hear them crunching on bones nearby. We were really surprised at the speed with which they had located, killed and were eating their kill, we’re not sure but we believe it was probably a Bush Buck.

We had our Sundowner overlooking the river with the Crocodiles and Hippos. On the drive back we saw Genet, Elephant Shrews, Nightjars, and lots of various Antelope including a herd of Wildebeest, not forgetting a trail of Ants across the track, apparently moving their eggs to safety

We also had our, usual, uninvited guests in the bathroom on our return!Read more