Is me and Festo like many other days, but this one is a day
that does not have equals and never will.
We spotted easy lions, Grumpy and Brother walking in the open
grassland the other side of Lulenga juu. The sun is jus rising over the
horizon, the light gettino better by the minute. They are walking and then
sitting and walking again shoulder to shoulder strenghtening a bond that is
there since they were born.
Grumpy never changes, always has that mean challeging look
on him but Brother is sweet.
Not far there are also the three big cubs, more or less one
year old. The lay in the golden grass, few meters from us.
We drove away. The road was full of their spoors, after a km
a stopped the car and went for a pee, climbed back the car and drove off
towards mawe ya fisi. We did non find game in the way so we arrived there
pretty fast, bush hyraxes were plenty but what drew my attention was a small,
super small one, peering at us from the top of a big boulder.
But something was wrong, there was a terrible smell coming
from very close, I moved the car some meters just to find that the stench was
still there. Upon closer inspection the problem was revealed, when i stopped and
got out of the car bifore I stepped ove a pile of fresh lion’s scat with one foot.
Horrible!
As soon as i realized it I moved off and stopped a hndred
meters further under a big baobab, went behind the car and starter cleaning my
shoe. I was there with a shoe in my end and a stick in the other, busy cleaning
when I received a phone call.
Manu called me from home, my sister Chiara was resting in an
hospital room and he was looking for the first time at his first born, my
nephew, Giovanni.
Tears had to be pushed back, it was difficult and even more
difficult was to keep concentration for the rest of the drive…..
All the rest of the day is blurred by too many emotions..
Happyness
