At 6.30 am we left the for morning drive. it was a bit chillly this morning and I wore a fleece and gloves on the drive. The rangers immediately found tracks of two large male lions. From tracks on the road they figured out exactly where they were located. It was thick bush.

One ranger did some serious off roading and on foot tracking but they could not find them. The rest of the vehicles partrolled the roads around the block but the lions had not crossed a road. So they WERE there but we could not find them.Finally we gave up.

Then a herd of elephants were moving our way that were seen by one of the vehicles. This elephant herd disappeared not to be seen again.

This is a safari. Sometimes things just do not develop.

HOWEVER we ended the drive with a nice sighting of rhino and the pride we had seen the night before with the kill. The little ones were not sleepng and one of the cubs kept biting the tail of a female lion. They were all on top of one another. One face to coved with paws from a lion. Plus some birds our "birder" Paul had not see before, and a crocodile and a big lone Cape Buffalo. Plus of course some plains animals.

It is HOT today and will be very warm this afternoon. We will go out again at 4.00 pm