Another fairly early morning, making our way to the north of the park. I made myself a friend (bushbuck) before leaving, she seemed to like me – was rubbing her little head all over my legs!

The habitat changed dramatically, is more like the scrub in outback Australia. Definitely not as many in quantity or as many in variety of animals in this section of the park.

We have the usual animals – though on one stretch of road it took us about 15- 20 minutes to make half a km as we had animals crossing the road one after the other. Firstly elephant, zebra, then a huge herd of wildebeest, that seemed to go on for ever, then giraffe and impala, Nyala & Kudu. It was peak hour traffic.

The camp site was based around a watering hole – our vehicle was only about 7 meters from the fence line where an animal pathway was located.

It was hot- a dry heat – about 36 degrees.     We went thru a 5lt bottle of water in the afternoon.

Vermot monkeys once again inhabited the area, they have special bins to keep them out, but they still managed to knock them over & go through people’s rubbish – they are a real pest. Some of the rangers patrol the camp site with sling shots, to try to keep them away!

David is happy – he had finally found some stubby coolers. We also purchased a cork bottle stop – to keep the wasps out of your drinks.

There was a hide located in front of the waterhole – I sat in here for hours watching – mainly elephants come and play in the cool- muddy water. Once again, the animals took turns of using the water hole- elephants would leave then water buffalo would turn up, then a family of warthogs, this went on for ages. Once it got dark there was a yellow light shining on the area, it didn’t affect the animals and made it a bit easier for us to watch them, though it wasn’t good for photography. I am glad we invested in binoculars – it made watching the animals a lot clearer.

We had a showing of fire flies – this was pretty cool – but didn’t come out when photos were taken.

The facilities were really basic and wasn’t screened in at all, we had bugs and insects everywhere.

It was Brendan’s turn tonight to fight with the insects – they kept attacking him.