May 24 - Morning Game Drive

We set out again at 6:00 a.m. with Tony and Michael, determined to revisit the area where we had seen the hyena last night.
We saw a female and a male lion. We saw impala. We saw rhinos. We saw a blue duiker – the second smallest in the antelope family.

When we stopped for morning coffee, a solo hippo watched us with his big eyes from the nearby pond. The warm sun burns their skin and makes them susceptible to infections, so they tend to stay almost totally submerged during the day time.

We saw a wonderful sight of both giraffes and zebras together. They often team up and spend the night in a field, offering mutual protection against predators.

We stopped by a huge termite hill - these termites aren't the kind that eat wood. They eat fallen leaves and bits of vegetation and create compost that benefits the plants around the hill.

We didn't see the elusive leopard, so we are going to start our afternoon game drive at 3:00 p.m. rather than 4:00 p.m. in hopes of a sighting.Read more