Back here again in the Kruger National Park for three nights in seperate rest camps as we work our way North towards Botswana, leaving the three days overlap with the first leg after Satara Rest Camp.
Won't bore you with loads more animal pics, as wonderful as they are...so how about our sunset safari? ... We arrive Satara just in time to throw on warm, waterproof clothing (looks like rain) and dash for the Safari truck. The driver/guide is brilliant; he drives us off into the bush to stop about 3m from a group of young male lions, who don't seem too bothered by us but do look us in the eye in a disdainful kind of way. Very few of us have been this close to a wild lion and it's a very special moment.
...Then it starts to rain steadily as darkness falls...and it's an open truck with a canvas roof that takes to periodically dumping the water collected on the roof onto my (non-waterproof) trousers...at least my top half is dry and warm under the waterproof and fleece. Sue sits on the inside and gets slightly less damp...
...But all is forgotten as a 'coalition' of four male lions on the hunt appear in the headlights as they plod very purposefully down the road, seemingly not at all bothered as our spot-lamps are trained on them. We track them for a while and even see them walking right alongside the truck. Magic. Pity the poor Impala we've seen earlier.
Soon, its time to thank our guide and plod back to our motorhomes for a hot drink and dry clothes....Charles has never looked so good.
OK...can't resist a couple of LION pics...
This one is looking at ME...luckily the camera's got anti-shake...
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