Mountain Zebra Day 3

We were up at 5:30am this morning and after a couple of coffees we were ready to leave at 6:15am. We definitely weren’t the first car out this morning but we were in no hurry. We’ve realised that this park is so big with so few predators that the chances of us seeing one are slim to none, but we did always kind of know that.
We did the same loop as yesterday only today we wouldn’t be heading back to the 4x4 route, and for the first 40 minutes we didn’t see anything. Then we came across a lone hartibeest who was seriously ugly.
We always laugh about the hartibeest and say when god had finished making the animals he had a few spare parts left over and made the hartibeest. They have dark fronts and golden yellow behinds. We can always spot them a mile off so they’re not very well camouflaged. There horns look as though they have been put on backwards which would be great for riding but useless for anything else and they are all boss eyed. This one in front us us was the worst we had seen. He had obviously been shunned from the herd he was so bad. He had totally wonky horns and a lazy boss eye.
After the hartibeest we started seeing more animals, black Wilderbeast, mountain zebra, Oryx and springbok and we sat by a watering hole for 20 minutes watching 2 Jackals fancying there chances at taking down some roan antelope. They had no chance.
By 9am we were back at camp and the sun was blazing away already. We had a light breakfast and then at 11am we decided to go to the picnic area where we discovered that there was another swimming pool and we had the whole pool and picnic area to ourselves, except for the monkeys. It was very refreshing.
When we got back at 1:30pm we headed over to the restaurant for lunch and a huge storm broke above us . When we had finished our food we made a dash back to camp in the rain where I did my Spanish lessons and Ellie had a nap. It rained heavens hard with water gushing down the road but it stopped at 4pm just as quickly as it had started and we were left with a rainbow and scorching hot temperatures again.
At 5pm I lit the Braai and we had Wors and corn in the cob for dinner then we just chilled for the rest of the evening.Lue lisää