M&M 23/8/2011

Very special people came in camp today, amongst them, my friends Mario and Matilde. It is their first time in safari... and we started with proper fireworks. On the way from airstrip to camp we got kipunji pride, they were just on the road, their conditions very very poor. The cubs are now reduced to three only and the females have no milk.The little ones are so skinny that I doubt will make it if the pride does not kill something within the next two or three days. I am worried for them, this split of kipunji seems to have lost the hunting skills that made them so successfull in the previous years. M&M are obviously chuffed by the welcome that Ruaha gave them and I am happy. In the afternoon the show continued... we went all the way to r25 to look for a cheetah male that had been seen in the morning... we found it close to the road, sleeping under a bush.We had the pleasure to watch it for long and then we headed back just to find another lion pride not far from little Serengeti and eventually we arrived in camp, tired but excited.