Once we made it through the
bush we arrived at our new home in the bush. Six tents were pitched neatly in a
semi circle when we arrived at the bush camp although we were at a campsite and
would be staying in tents, the great number of workmen moving around the
private site constructing bathrooms, showers, dinning, kitchen and their own
tents tipped me off that we wouldn’t be roughing it, Marx popping a bottle of
wine for us on the road also should have been a tip off but when in Botswana…
We had a quick rest and we
set straight out for our first sunset safari game drive. Although we had 4 or
so hours til sunset LT warned us that there was a lot to see but we had to be
back at camp before dark. As we set out already having seen wild dogs, zebras,
elephants, and antelopes on the way I was excited to see what scenes we would
see now that we were really in the thick of it.
Again a wild assortment of
wildlife was to be seen and breath taking views. Especially of one lady in a
GREEN bikini waving at us as she waded into croc, snake and god knows what else
water. Although LT said we most definitely wouldn’t and shouldn’t do such a
thing he didn’t make fuss about trying to inform the woman that she wasn’t in
the best position to be going for a dip. Anyways shortly after passing the lady
in the GREEN bikini we saw giraffes, elephants, wilder beast, all kinds of
birds and some lions. LIONESES to be exact, not to far off we came across the
carcass of a huge elephant that had most of its face and inners devoured,
clearly having fallen prey to the pride. I expected to be a little more shocked
but much like killing the chicken, the slaughter of the cows for nwgo and later
my trip to the BMC, I’m learning I’m quite un-phased by the gruesome death of
animals and I have a strong tummy. Although I think my strength and blood lust
might be coming from my company who were very anxious to see some hunts in
actions, it would have been awesome but didn’t happen. Our driven continued for
hours until we parked in an elephant playground, got down and had a drink and
watched the sunset while sitting in a huge whole made by the elephants seeking
the salt. Sitting there elephants passing within a 30 foot radius was pretty
epic and I could just imagine my mother shouting at me to get out of the damn
hole and into the car. But then again if we are talking about my mom she would
out there inspecting the elephant dung and snapping photos of the beautiful
view.
As we headed back to camp
ending on an amazing high something even more exciting happened. Not too far
off in the distance a leopard jetted by. Our big hunt seen briefly and in the
shadow on night fall but amazing and rare all the same.
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