After the heavy rain and thunderstorm last night we wake up
to a wonderful sunny day again. We leave early morning for our walking safari
with armed guide. The cool of the morning quickly turns into another very hot
and humid day, but never mind…. We soon find the first signs of elephants
nearby. Our guide very expertly traces the footprints, and suddenly there is
this huge lone male elephant. He goes swimming in the waterhole, and we watch
fascinated for a long time. Tempting to join him in the pool, but after seeing
the crocodiles this option never really comes up.
Slowly we walk back across the open plain towards our hotel.
Suddenly the guide stops. Elephants again! I don’t believe it, we are so lucky!
(Joan, I promised to paint his toenails in green, yellow and
red, but the way the elephants look at me, I decide against it….)
Wow, what a morning – I never expected we would really see
elephants, and that close!
More to come,
Cynthia
That's great. The last time I only got to see two and that was in the heat of the afternoon. It is really exciting when they put on a show int he water, such a giant animal slowly easing into the water is quite the sight.
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