After such a close encounter, what you really need is breakfast.
We have breakfasted in many exotic places, many dangerous places, many unusual places. But none as unusual as today.
We headed for a Kopje (a rocky outcropping) .
And did not stop.
This land cruiser seems to be able to get anywhere. It can get us out of trouble, and it can get us into trouble.
This time it climbed up to a rocky summit.
As usual, great food. I got a little of it on my beard though...
No, it wasn't the cheetahs we had on our truck earlier on. It was not my blood...
Yes, Ian had found yet another cheetah family, this time having their breakfast too.
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Corey's Bustard |
Insert joke about bustards here.
Thankfully these hyenas were not on the same rock as us.
We headed west for the central Serengeti to fill up the fuel tanks, then continued on to Seronera for the afternoon.
Here, finally, an elephant. They are not too keen on the endless plains as they prefer trees and long grass to eat. And they eat a lot.
For lunch we ate by the beach of a small lake. This lake is full of salts making it toxic to drink for most wildlife. Flamingos, though, didn't seem to care.
Much of the beauty that we see in nature centres around the young.
Not so with flamingos...
Close to this lake is what you could loosely call a stream, but more accurately call a toilet.
This, without doubt, is the bog of eternal stench.
These huge faecal machines spray their wares hither and thither. So little fresh water enters their domain, so much crap fills it up.
It smells atrocious, but the hippos clearly love it.
These ox-pecker birds must have evolved a negative sense of smell.
These hippos lives seem to consist of yawning, burping and farting.
Know anyone like that?
Dental hygiene is not high on their list.
There is only so much time that you can spend near this stench.
Even this young elephant has tried to tie a knot in its nose.
Smell the flowers.
Meanwhile, in another universe...
Anyone know what species from which planet?
And so, this afternoon was more like a 'normal' safari than we had so far experienced.
Normal African wildlife doing normal things.
Even cute little dik-diks (called this because of the sound that they make)
and tricky to photograph mongooses.
We, of course, had to finish off the day with a leopard.
He was intent on doing nothing, although, once the sun had set...
...he wandered over to that tree over there...
...making photography significantly more difficult.
Tomorrow we leave the eastern Serengeti and head north for 'Part Two'. Yes. Finally.
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