Sitting at the Jamala waterhole. Wonderful lunch with the elephants.

Then came the elephant parade. Five separate groups of elephants came in one after another. There were so many elephants here well over a hundred individuals. So much activity difficult to know what to watch. The really young ones with wobbly trunks, the adolescents trumpeting and chasing the impala, the young males fighting or our “love in afternoon couples”.

Then of course there is the destruction of the tree to be handled right at the deck. That was a pretty nice tree when we arrived with birds nests hanging down now only a small top branch left. This bought the elephants so close about three feet from the deck. All sizes including tiny ones so incredibly close.

Cannon Ken and Nikon Ken and Tim went out. The rest of us stayed to spend the afternoon with the elephants.

The guinea fowl have just arrived and the little elephants are chasing them around. The elephants arrived about 1.00 pm and it is now 5.00 pm and they are still here.