Wild dogs. Yes we saw them today. After much tracking on the roads and time spent we figured out where they would be and sent our trackers out into the bush to stalk them on foot.

These fearless “crocodile dundee” types did not let us down. They tracked the dogs in the bush and found them. The dogs jumped up and started running, fortunately away from our trackers. The word went out. WILD DOGS.

We turned around and went at high speed to the dogs location. On the way we picked up the trackers. Three of them hanging onto the sides of the vehicles and riding on the steps outside of the vehicle. The life of a trackers hangs in the balance in many ways.

The dogs were at the dam we had passed about 15 minutes earlier. We followed them as they crossed an open field. Then as usual they went into some thick bush. Still wonderful to see them.

All our vehicles saw the dogs at varying stages. One vehicle had a baby day seeing babies of many species including young twin elephants. We were at a river with an unhappy mother elephant in front of us and an unhappy hippo leaving the water to the right of us. All ended well as the elephant moved to our left and the hippo moved to the right. We ran the gauntlet of the angry elephant and angry hippo with great finesse.

Sighting have been terrific here and now four days at Makanyi to look forward to coming up.