Mwamba - Last Full Day

Lainey was up to go for a walk with Phil and Goodson this morning whilst I had a lay-in and joined her at the end of their walk

We went East today to a Water Buck Gambo, a waterhole, when we arrived Phil was quite concerned at the levels, also the fact Great White Pelicans were already here when usually it’s around September time before they arrive. We had also expected to find Cape Buffalo but they weren’t about, although all the signs were there

We then began to check the area along the river for signs of life and saw a Greater Kudu who was heading to drink become very wary at our approach deciding to head off instead, moving along we came to an opening which is beneficial to browsers and grazers seeing Zebra, Puku and Baboons all sharing the same area, also, in the tree line was a Giraffe browsing, as opposed to grazing, they really are magnificent creatures. At this point I was about to discard a leaf when I took a closer look and it was a Mantis which had decided to land Phil very kindly stopped and we left it in a field of grasses

Back at the riverbed, a subsidiary to the Luangwa, we saw lazy Hippos and a whole gaggle of Geese arguing over territory and their mates watched on by an African Spoonbill, African Sacred Ibis and, of course, the Hippos after which we moved further along for morning tea on the river bank itself

Here we had a chuckle seeing the Hippos noisily rearranging themselves and at a youngster determined to rest on her mums back and at a Crocodile sliding along, he must’ve been all of four metres…huge!

Heading back we interrupted, albeit briefly, Puku enjoying a ‘coupling’ although I rather think she was still on the hors d'oeuvre…Read more