Woke to find it was a very grey, thundery day. Had a really odd breakfast. Ian had the Delta (bacon, eggs and minced
beef) and I had Mokoro (Bacon, eggs and fried onions). Drove to Maun to buy more water, beer, petrol
and managed to get Ian a pair of shorts to replace the pair he ripped in
Tanzania. Even spoiled ourselves with
sausage rolls and choccie donuts for lunch.
Road to Nxai Pan entrance was 150 km of tar so only took a
couple of hours. The road from the
entrance immediately turned into deep, deep sand – v glad of our landy!
Arrived at camp at 4pm but headed straight out to the only
wet waterhole, everywhere else is very dry and extremely flat. The area is famed for large herds of zebra
and ostriches and although we haven’t seen as many as we had expected we have
still seen lots of both. The waterhole
at first appeared quiet until we realised there was a lioness and her two cubs
guarding a kudu kill on one side of the track and 2 male lions on the other
side.
We spent a fascinating hour
watching their antics as first they had a stand off with a rather large
elephant and then a couple of jackals tried to muscle in on tea. Later a giraffe plus herd of elephants
descended on the waterhole but they were all very wary of the pride of lions.
We had our wrists slapped by the ranger as we had backed off
the main track to get out of the way but this is clearly not allowed. We actually think it was due to the other
vehicle by the waterhole that had driven all around the lions to get a good
view but the ranger didn’t feel he could just tell them off.
Luckily we had planned a quick pasta tea because we ended up
eating it in the dark to avoid being inundated with large buzzing bugs!
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