Friday, February 15, 2019

Safari...Day 13

We made 5.30am start for our first game drive of the day, it was a quiet start to the drive, although we did see a couple of Rhinos, impalas, Zebras warthogs and plenty of bird life.  












The highlight of the drive was when we stopped at a waterhole where a herd of Buffaloes were wallowing in the mud, we were only a couple of meters away from these huge beasts and it was fascinating to watch them.












After breakfast we had a couple of hours rest, during which Mandy opened the front door to find 6 impalas on our doorstep !













At around 10.30 we went on our 3rd game drive, once again the game came thick and fast. Shortly after leaving the lodge the  road was blocked by two huge Rhinos marking their territory. Driving through the Bush we spotted two Mongooses playing, Other animals we saw included Wilderbeast, monkeys, elephants, Giraffes, tortoises, impalas, Kudo, zebras and baboons. 












As we were ending our drive we noticed a number of vultures circling overhead,  we stopped off to ask a ranger the reason,  sadly he told us that 2 rhino had been killed by poachers. 

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