Being still a bit feverish, I spent the morning in my tent resting, doing accounts and answering emails.
Before lunch I took my paracetamol dose and headed out of camp for a game drive
We went first to see another camp, two nights ago a couple of elephants destroyed their tented lounge and the owner asked me to go and checked what happened there.
The bulls savaged the tent horribly, I have never seen something like that. Apparently for no reason they bent metal poles and broke some of them, they ripped canvas and smashed furniture.
I really could not understand why they did that, there was no food inside, no people around, nothing that could trigger such rage.
We went first to see another camp, two nights ago a couple of elephants destroyed their tented lounge and the owner asked me to go and checked what happened there.
The bulls savaged the tent horribly, I have never seen something like that. Apparently for no reason they bent metal poles and broke some of them, they ripped canvas and smashed furniture.
I really could not understand why they did that, there was no food inside, no people around, nothing that could trigger such rage.
We took some pictures for the owner and we left towards another area.
Soon we started seeing small breeding herds of elephants, all red, after bathing in iron oxide rich mud. The contrast between the red of the ellies and the grass is really something. We went driving and birding for a while when something in the distance caught my eye: it was a flabbergasting vision of a herd of ellies, at least one hundred and fifty strong, even from that far we could feel the energy within the huge group.
It was a sort of powerful vibrations given both by the sight of them and by the sound they were producing. The look like an endless line of huge boulders between the acacias and the baobabs.
On the way back we kept seeing other herds of elephants but the excitement of the sighting of the big herds stayed with us.
We got a puncture on the way back and this delayed us a bit
Getting late on the road to camp gave room to a very cool surprise: three sighting of spotted eagle owl, all of them were just in the middle of the road but in three different spots.
The third one actually did not want to leave the road.
Eventually he flew up on a tree by the side of the road, only to fly back on the road in front of us as we passed by.
He kept dancing in front of the car regardless of all we did, lights on lights off, on again off again.
He left the road only when he decided to do that
It was a sort of powerful vibrations given both by the sight of them and by the sound they were producing. The look like an endless line of huge boulders between the acacias and the baobabs.
On the way back we kept seeing other herds of elephants but the excitement of the sighting of the big herds stayed with us.
We got a puncture on the way back and this delayed us a bit
Getting late on the road to camp gave room to a very cool surprise: three sighting of spotted eagle owl, all of them were just in the middle of the road but in three different spots.
The third one actually did not want to leave the road.
Eventually he flew up on a tree by the side of the road, only to fly back on the road in front of us as we passed by.
He kept dancing in front of the car regardless of all we did, lights on lights off, on again off again.
He left the road only when he decided to do that
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