Decided for once to chill for the day and not do any of the
activities on offer. The view from our
tent was so superb we just sat around reading and watching the river bank. So
far we have seen an elephant in every park we have visited so we were delighted
when a lone elephant came down to the river for a drink and then wandered
across the river to this shore.
The
other entertainment for the day were the vultures. Before we arrived a cow had strayed across
the river and been attacked by the lions, and the remains of its carcass was
lying on the other bank. The farmers
came down to inspect it in the morning presumably to get the tag from its ear
in the hope of getting some compensation (unlikely as the cow had strayed into
the park not the lion straying out of the park). By about 11 am one vulture had landed and was
viewing the scene but within half an hour the bush radio was in full swing and
dozens of vultures were flying in for lunch.
The start of the rains also mean that snakes become more
active and just to prove this point we saw our first snake of our trip by the
plunge pool in the morning – it was a small, thin snake with a green head. We later saw it again and managed to get one
of the staff to identify it as a spotted bush snake – very beautiful and
harmless. Our encounters with snakes
were still not over though as one of the staff found another one after dinner but
was unable to identify it – it was another small, thin snake with a crisscross
pattern all over.
The evening was interesting with quite different
conversation to a lot of places we have stayed as the majority of the guests
tonight were from Maun up for the weekend.
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