Tuesday 3rd October 2017
Nambiti Game Reserve
Our accommodation on the game park reserve
It wasn't obvious this morning that we had such heavy rain last night as it had soaked in. Our first morning game drive and it is exciting not knowing what animals we will come across. The rangers say that we will not see lions today as they had made a kill a few days ago and would be sleeping off the feed.
We saw large herds of zebra, giraffe, wildebeast, kudus with large antlers, impalas and ostrich.
Walking along the path to our room after breakfast, a long skinny animal with reddish fur and a black tipped tail ran across in front of us. From our description the ranger identified it as a mongoose.
On the afternoon drive we came across three enormous hippo wallowing in the shallows of a dam. From the rear end they are huge. A pretty Kingfisher bird was sitting by watching them.
We also saw two rhino and the ranger explained that they actually remove part of the horn to stop poaching. A small portion of horn would fetch up to 67,000 rand. Also to stop poaching the rangers never say how many rhino are on the reserve. Interestingly, the rangers do not carry guns and their respect for the animals is obvious.
Weaver bird and its nest
Nambiti Game Reserve
It wasn't obvious this morning that we had such heavy rain last night as it had soaked in. Our first morning game drive and it is exciting not knowing what animals we will come across. The rangers say that we will not see lions today as they had made a kill a few days ago and would be sleeping off the feed.
We saw large herds of zebra, giraffe, wildebeast, kudus with large antlers, impalas and ostrich.
Walking along the path to our room after breakfast, a long skinny animal with reddish fur and a black tipped tail ran across in front of us. From our description the ranger identified it as a mongoose.
On the afternoon drive we came across three enormous hippo wallowing in the shallows of a dam. From the rear end they are huge. A pretty Kingfisher bird was sitting by watching them.
We also saw two rhino and the ranger explained that they actually remove part of the horn to stop poaching. A small portion of horn would fetch up to 67,000 rand. Also to stop poaching the rangers never say how many rhino are on the reserve. Interestingly, the rangers do not carry guns and their respect for the animals is obvious.
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