This morning we revisited the lion pride that we saw holed up in a tree yesterday. Today, they were on a half-hearted hunt, which rapidly deteriorated into siesta.
Then saw an elephant break-dancing…
We then drove to the Maramagambo Forest where we walked looking up for monkeys and, at the same time, looking down for bitting safari ants on the ground. We forded a small stream with fresh water crabs, fed with water from a deep sinkhole. Next to this was a cave containing about 100,000 Egyptian Fruit-eating Bats. They spend all day making a racket to scare off predators, and will attack anyone who enters the cave. Annick was mildly disconcerted…
This tree has one half completely taken over by a fig tree surrounding its trunk. It looks like love, but it’s more like marriage…
At the edge of the Maramagambo forest, is a lake formed in the basin of a volcanic crater; lake Kasambooka.
An idyllic setting, rendered slightly less romantic on realising that the enormous white tree on the opposite shore is not a lost white tree of Andulin, nor a majestic Oak in its final years, but simply covered with bird poops. Yup, it’s a Cormorant crapper.
Our first evening game trek ended with zero hits, so we went back for a wild party…
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