Sleeping was rough last night. We woke up about 3am to the sounds of baboons and couldn’t get back to sleep. Here are pictures from today.
We saw a herd of 50 elephants and Gareth drove to a point several hundred feet ahead of where we were. They just mozzied on by. One adolescent males stood in front of the Jeep and tried to intimidate us but we weren’t falling for that old ploy. We also found a pride of lions lying in a dried river bed.
Here are a few more pictures of our camp
That night while we were eating dinner we watched an elephant roam into our camp. When we were escorted back to our bungalow we passed him and he was about 120 ft from our unit. About an hour later Rick was out on our deck and the elephant was right outside eating the leaves from the tree and the bushes. We all came out an watched him. Eventually he wandered to in front of our bungalow and we tried to come out to watch him some more. We were promptly told to get back inside by a guard. Our ranger was out there trying to scare him by clapping and throwing stones. Apparently he didn’t care and stayed in camp for awhile doing more damage. He knocked over several very large planters and broke up several bushes. The next morning we learned that he was in musk. Elephants in musk can be very dangerous but he seemed gentle to us.