Day 5. Shingwedzi.
It rained during the night and was still raining when the alarm woke me at 03:30 so I went back to sleep.
We eventually got up, had coffee and set off down the Mphongolo loop.
First up was a Leopard
Tortoise taking a drink from a puddle
and after a long drive where we saw mostly Impalas, we found this lazy chap lion around. He didn't even move when we arrived, he just opened his eyes, checked us out and went back to sleep.
At Babalalalala I found some ants getting their early meal
and on the way back to camp, at a Hyaena den, a skull from a predator.
Back at camp, I found some other small things to photograph with my extension tubes
This Skink is resident in the tree next to our tent.
This little chap was crawling on my arm and I was about to brush it off when I noticed that all was not as it seemed.
Q. When is an ant not an ant????
A. When it's an ant-mimic. This is actually a cricket!!
Back on the road for our usual Shingwedzi afternoon drive down the river loops. The first thing we saw was a Side Striped Jackal in the river bed
Then we had some White-Fronted Bee-Eaters
and much further down, a lone Lioness on the far side of the river
As the light was fading, I saw a stange creature clambering about in a tree. It looks like a Vervet Monkey but obviously had some colour mutation. I don't think it's an albino because it doesn't have pink eyes.
What a strange day, not a lot of quantity but the quality was exceptional :)
