Maroela rest camp day 7

We had decided to get up later today as we hadn’t been seeing much really early and we left camp after coffees and Ellie had, had breakfast around 7:30am.
Herd animals were plentiful this morning which gave us hope of seeing predators but it was all quiet. Our best sighting was of a fish eagle sitting in a tree at eye level over the river.
I had hoped to see leopard on the Timbavati river road to the picnic sight and drove the gravel track incredibly slowly looking in every tree and in the long grass but there was nothing and I reached the picnic sight at 9:30am grumpy.
We drove back the same route because I didn’t want to take the risk of driving all the way to Satara and not see anything and we encountered a big herd of buffalo and quite a few elephants but still no predators.
We got back to camp to find that even the hyena had deserted us for the day. We’d have to settle for looking at a dry river bed for the day.
After a nap at 12:30pm we just sat in camp and it was void of all wildlife out in the riverbed. We had to settle for the woodland kingfishers and the tree squirrels. It was the quietest animal day we’d had for a very long time.
At 4pm our lack of animals changed when an elephant came strolling by the fence line and just as he passed us he gave a very low rumble and then another elephant appeared on the opposite bank. They met up in the middle before moving off.
At dinner time 3 hyena came by and then wandered off over the other side and up the bank and into the bush. Then it was all quiet for the night until we went in at 7pm.Read more