This morning Rick and Mike spent the morning in the hide. The hide is a shipping container which was partially buried in front of a watering hole. The container was then camouflage. Here’s a picture of the hide.
Meanwhile the rest of us did our morning drive. We watched the cheetah cubs and mom play. As well as watched a herd of elephants go by. Here are some videos.
We also saw a leopard who had just taken a kill, a steenbok, away from a cheetah. Just as a note we are seeing lots of birds but I can’t capture them with my camera so no pictures. Sorry bird lovers.
That afternoon Patty and I went to the hide that is part of our camp and watched the elephants drink.
On our afternoon drive we went back to the cheetahs so Rick and Mike could see them. They were still playing. At one point the cheetah mom seemed to be teaching her cubs to mark their territory. She peed on the tree that they were resting under. Then one by one each of the cubs peed on the tree too. Then we found the female cheetah who had had her kill stolen. She was hunting and sneaking up on some impala. She would move 30 or 40 feet and then lie down for 5 or 10 mins. Eventually it got too dark for us to see her so we don’t know if she got anything. I really wanted to see her run but not this time. Here are some pictures from the afternoon drive. I included one of the general landscape, it was scrub lands.
We went back to camp and packed up because we are leaving tomorrow.