Gray and I were woken up at 1:30 by what sounded like a helicopter landing outside. We opened our fly sheet and shone our torch out and there was a hippo taking a dump right outside the girl’s tent – it uses its tail to spray the dung around and hence the almighty noise. He then grazed around the kids tents for another ½ hour before wandering off. Gray and I struggled to get back to sleep after that, probably because we had already had 5 hours of sleep.
We woke up early and headed off into the park for a game drive. The bush in the park is awesome and the kids saw puku for the first time. We also saw loads of general game, ellies and hippo before returning to camp for lunch and a rest from the midday heat.
We returned to the park for a long afternoon drive. We saw a huge herd of buffalo, loads more ellie and amazing dams, filled with hippo. Gray and I had told the kids about the tsetse flies we had encountered in Kafue and wondered if we would have the same problems with the little pests here. Gray obviously over embellished his stories as while driving through one of the forested areas, 3 tsetse flew in through the window and all hell broke loose. I happened to be sitting in the back, sandwiched between 2 hysterical girls, who were convinced that a sting would kill them. I killed one with my flip flop and the girls the armed themselves, kirsty killing one on Gray’s shoulder, I think the slap caused more pain that a tsetse would have. It really is a wonderful park; even kirst commented on how much she enjoyed it.
We returned from our drive and had a braai under the trees. After dinner we decided that we needed a ‘late’ night, so we headed off the bar for a night cap. Amarula on ice – another kak day in Africa.
Lilac breasted roller eating a frog
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