Each day (apparently regardless of the lodge or operator seems to stack up like this:
5:15 Meet for coffee, load up for the morning drive. It has actually been pretty cool in the morning, especially while the vehicles are moving, so we are wearing long pants, long sleeves, and sweatshirts.
5:30 Leave the lodge in an open safari vehicle (all have been Toyota Land Cruisers so far), and go cruising dirt roads looking for animals. All the creatures are quite mobile, so you never really know who’s going to be where.
7:30 Stop for coffee and biscuits, which the driver has loaded on the vehicle.
10:00+- Finish the morning drive back at the lodge, immediately tuck into a large English breakfast.
13:00 Lunch (we haven’t eaten one yet!)
15:30 High tea, sweets, snacks, gather for evening drive
16:00 Depart for evening drive
17:30 “Sundowner” cocktails off the tailgate of the vehicle
20:00+- Return from evening drive, tuck into dinner
That leaves a couple of hours in the middle of the day to take care of everything else—we’ve been on the go a lot for the last few days.
Finally, a summary of all the animals we’ve seen so far:
Black rhino
Brown hyena
Cape buffalo
Crocodile
Dung beetle
Elephant
Giraffe
Hippopotamus
Jackal
Kori’s bustard
Kudu
Lion
Monitor lizard
Ostrich
Sassaby
Savannah baboon
Springbok
Ververt monkeys
Warthog
Waterbuck
White rhino
Wild dog
Zebra
…and countless birds—kingfishers, hawks, eagles, waterbirds, weavers, and guinea fowl underfoot everywhere!
