Maroela Rest camp day 5

I was up at 4:30am making coffees. The rain had stopped and it looked like it was going to be a lovely day and I wanted to get going.
The hyena had woken us up at silly o clock because they had been hunting and I thought other predators might have been out.
Just as we were leaving the monkeys came back into camp. We’d already locked everything away but it’s the destruction they can cause and just as we were debating staying Mike the ranger turned up and they scarpered. They were so scared of him and we then felt happy leaving.
Game viewing was sparse to say the least but halfway to Satara a ranger flew past us going towards our campsite with his hazards on and I made a joke saying Mike has had to call for backup. Little did I realise that was actually the truth.
We grabbed coffees at Satara jumped back in the car and headed back to camp, that’s when we found out that Mike had, had problems with the monkeys aswell and called for backup and the car we saw heading there was a K9 protection unit. By the time we got there the action was all over, the dogs had chased the monkeys away and the camp was quiet.
We got back to camp at 10:30am had a cup of tea and then went back to bed for an hour. When we got up we decided to take the awning sides and storm tarp down to clean them and put them away. We are moving camps tomorrow and this will save time.
By 2:30pm we were done and sitting out the front of the caravan we were joined by a male hyena just the other side of the fence. He spent all afternoon and evening with us. If we can’t get a fence line position at Satara camp we’re going to miss the hyena.
At 4:30pm we had convinced ourselves into staying at Maroela camp and binning off Satara altogether. The only reason we needed to go to Satara was for the washing and different roads so we headed upto Orpen reception and changed our dates and the day before we are meant to leave this area we booked 1 night in a safari tent at the Tamboti camp next door.
We went back to camp, had chicken salad for dinner and as it got dark we lit a small fire for ambience. Then at 8pm we went un for the night.Baca lagi