Today Mary Ellen said "How many times can you say WOW?!" That was just the kind of day it was. It got off to a roaring start (:-)) when we saw two lionesses at their leisure in a field beside the road. We watched them for awhile, and then continued on our way. I had decided that I'd taken pictures of everything I'd seen, and that I was going to use binoculars today, and only the small camera, while Larry enjoyed himself with the bigger new one. I also continued to quiz Mr. Bean, our guide, about the many birds we saw, and tried to learn a few of their names. I took along the hotel's checklist of local flora and fauna and checked off everything we saw. The list is far too long to reproduce here, but suffice it to say that it was amazing! Many of the same things as yesterday of course, but a few new ones, including those lionesses. We did a drive this morning, followed by a boat trip, in the opposite direction from yesterday. We were in the midst of many hippos at one point on the river, and spent a lot of time in the midst of families of elephants, watching how they moved and especially the relationships between a
dults and calves. It was really fun. After lunch was time for a short swim (in the pool of course, not in the river!) and then an afternoon drive. We began with a juvenile hyena, who gave us quite a show by the river. It drank and peed at the same time, then wallowed in the mud for awhile. Later we saw a jackal, and finally --- tada! the icing on the cake -- those same two lionesses and their three cubs! But wait! Wait! There's more -- if you phone now -- we saw the lion just at dusk, and from a distance, so we got no viable photos, but we really really did see him! What luck we've had. We saw everything significant here except the leopard. It was tough saying good bye to Mr Bean, though I think we'll see him before we leave in the morning. We had a good time in the bar, then a nice bbq type dinner, like at the Manchurian bbq in China, where we filled our plates with the makings, and they were grilled to order for us. Yum. Then a bit more bar time and off to bed.
Desert & scenery of Chobe safari is really superb. I also want to enjoy the visiting places & want to observe the lodge details so give me the suggestion on that. Well! If you want to go through Chobe game lodge then just touch it out.
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