Sohebele male enjoying a drink |
Morning Drive
(Marka, Chad, Peter & Andrea)
Rhino (1 male)
Elephant (1 Kambaku) / Motswari – Western Cutline
Buffalo (Breeding Herd) / Mostwari – Just east of Shlaralumi camp
Afternoon Drive
(Peter)
X lots of rain
16.01.2012
Morning Drive
(Peter)
Leopard (Shindzuti male) / Peru – Sohobele Plains
Afternoon Drive
(Peter)
X even more rain
Well, if we thought it had rained yesterday – today it bucketed
down! My seat was a pool of water, and despite my newly purchased rain jacket –
I was drenched from head to toe. I
apologise therefore for lack of images this morning, but we could barely see
more than 10m at one point, let along taking cameras out! We did get lucky when
we bumped into a large male elephant who clearly did not mind the rain, and
continued feeding along. Myself and Jacky were trying to find a herd of buffalo
that we had seen some tracks for. But, the tracks had been before the late
evening rain and discerning direction was difficult. We clearly took the wrong
road, as once we were heading in the opposite direction, Peter found the herd
in the area we had just come from. Tracking in the rain is not ideal. We got to
view the nervous herd for a while, and the rain even lifted a little but soon
it started up again and my guests were ready for home time. Chad had a
successful morning as he found a male rhino resting up in a pool of water (as
if there wasn’t enough falling form the sky!!!!). It looks like the rain is
going to be staying with us for the next couple of days and I imagine the
laundry ladies are not going to be too chuffed with our piles and piles of wet
uniforms!
Peter has been out on his own the last few drives which has not
been easy. Quite a few properties have closed due to the rain and there is no
off road driving either which makes game viewing almost impossible (unless of
course the animal is right next to the road). Looks like we are going to have even more rain over the weekend so hopefully the animals play along. Chad will be taking over the blog
from tomorrow and for now, hope you enjoy these pics I took a few weeks ago (when
typically, I was not on blog duty) and the sun was still shining.
Great photos Andrea... I think when one of you guys/girl are not on blog duty you still have to give your photos to the one that is on duty ;-)...
ReplyDeletePity about all the rain, but don't complain too much otherwise you will be stuck with 40 degree days over there.
I wish the rain could come to us a bit in Pretoria... There are clouds here at least.
Cheers and thanks for all the updates.
Lourens