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| Black backed jackal |
After early coffee and rusks we went on a circular game drive – lots of jackals, a scrub hare with long ears, yellow mongooses, a family of suricates (meercats), lots of elephants, kudu by the dozen, a lone red hartebeest. We got back to camp about 11h00 to find a tent being put up right next to us – not a foot away from us. However they were a nice young couple and toddler from Port Alfred, and didn’t worry us at all. We had a brunch and then downloaded photos and emails.
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| Suricate |
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| Scrub hare |
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| Yellow Mongooses |
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| Boomslang |
The previous afternoon, Doggy had gone to walk the 2 km trail on the edge of the camp and returned greatly excited – birds had been making a terrific noise and it turned out to be a boomslang that was worrying them. He was very keen for me to do the trail, in case the snake was still there. We walked to the trail from the campsite – about a km I should think and then did the trail – 2km – and then walked back looking at the rest of the camp, the waterhole – not very productive. It has what they call ‘an underground hide’, but I think someone miscalculated horribly because you can’t see anything as you are below the level of the waterhole. At least you can get a bit of exercise here, which is essential to keep Doggy happy, otherwise he feels like a caged lion. Otherwise the camp is very nicely set out and we have really been very happy here.
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