We start early and we drive through mbagi and mwayembe, then mdonya forest and over....
In mwayembe springs we had the pleasure to see kaka and pua the two male lions that dominate the mdonya pride, the early morning light was palying wonderfully with their eyes and their biiiiiiig manes.
We drove off, watched buffaloes drinking in the river and crossed it and ventured in a road seldom used by anybody.
We soon realised that nobody yet drove the road this year and we also understood why, blackcotton soil, has hard as a rock and dotted with big dry elephant foot prints, paved long patches of the track, branches were hanging everywhere over the road and we often had to dive in order to avoid them, leave alone all the dead trees fallen acoss that we had to avoid with big loops offroad. Worst hing was that there wwa so many sickle bush in the road that it was a miracle we did not have a single puncture Man, it was a fight more then a drive, eventually we got to the spring, lot of water yet but not even the shadow of a sable, we went back and forth, we waited, we went farther on but nothing. We even checked Mkwawa springs with the same result..... Just giraffes and little more... It was already lnch time so we ate few sandwiches that were meant for a sort of brunch and my guests decided to stay out all day. We got the same male lions in the same spot and drove up the escarpment enjoying the wonderful view.
We went down to mbagi and to my great surprise we got again the honeybadger in the same pool, definitely trying to snatch a catfish for dinner. Sweet...
Eventually we also found two lionesses out of the sokwe forest, they tried to hunt impalas with the usual failure..... Was a long day I drove for 13 hours but in the end was good fun.
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