Well, we finally made it to Leopard Rock Lodge in the Madikwe Game Reserve. The flight from Dakar was uneventful and was followed by a 5 hour drive out to Madikwe. We rolled into the lodge around 11:30 p.m. local time, so all told, we were on the move for about 33 hours.
I'll skip the fluff and get right to the big stuff. Saturday morning on our first game drive, the very first thing we encounter are lions.... Two males and a female...HUNTING! They were stalking a zebra. Absolutely incredible. You could practically reach out of the truck and touch them and they could have cared less that we were there. Unfortunately, they didn't actually take the zebra, we think it got wise to them and the lions lost interest. Saturday also brought us some giraffe, four rhino and a very close encounter with some elephants.
The afternoon drive is when we encountered the rhinos and elephants. We happened upon the elephants quite by accident. Finished for the evening, we were heading back to the lodge when we passed another group of folks. Their guide mentioned some elephants in the trees ahead and he wasn't comfortable sticking around. Our guide, Shawn, was not to be dissuaded. Pushing on, we encounter a whole herd of elephants eating in the trees. It was fairly dark, but we had our spotlight and could easily see them. One even decided that she didn't care for our presence, that will make you think twice about messing with them. With that, we moved on back to the lodge.
The scenery here is marvelous, I'll post more about that later. Unfortunately, the internet isn't quite what I need to upload pictures or even post on a regular basis, so I'll do what I can.
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What does the title of this post mean? Bringing in some google searches?
The explanation is forthcoming in another post, but it does refer to a bird...
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