Up early and packed, ready for our morning drive. We first went to the waterhole – but no animals, we drove around and passed by a tour vehicle who advised there was lions at ‘Hippo Vlei” (marsh) – we made our way down there, but once again didn’t see anything, continuing down the road towards cheetah plains we saw a lot of tour vehicles stopped – 2 cheetahs- Yay. We couldn’t go off road to get too close but got some amazing pictures.

The cheetahs stayed on the termite mound for a good 5 minutes before walking off onto the plains, just behind our car.

We ran into our friendly guide again who advised lions at Hayes Pan – the complete opposite end of the park…arghhh. We braved the bumpy tracks again and all agreed to keep going rather than head back for breakfast- or now brunch. There are unmarked roads everywhere! We entered the GPS points and made our way there. We were thinking that the guide was having a lend, then Brendan, saw the 2 big make lions sitting under a bush – there were also 2 other tour vehicles watching 1 lion & the buffalo kill. Cool – 3 big male lions – we got close ( 5m) away from them- no worries! They were full –as they had just killed a buffalo, and hot!

We eventually left that sighting and made our way back to camp to have our extremely late breaky & some much needed showers in the elephant proof facilities!

I did a bit of hand washing – running out of undies…

We filled up the water bottles using our filtration system – you have to access the water from an elephant proof cement block.

Both David and Brendan tried to nap, but it is so hot & the wind has now picked up.

We decided on an early dinner & then to go out on drive – I didn’t want to cook again in the dark! We ended up boiling some eggs and having a ham salad (plus a garnish of fine sand thanks to the wind!)

We found the track to see the rock art on the rocks, we climbed up a rocky path but couldn’t see anything, after about 10 minutes looking I gave up, Brendan tenaciously kept looking & eventually found it – back at the first place we looked !

We headed back to the campsite as there is no driving after 7pm in the park, we saw a huge elephant- he was the biggest we had ever seen – an absolute monster! We got back a little after 7… oops, & set up our fire for the night- as it was so windy & uncomfortable, we had an early night.