Having had the experience of the wild dogs in the morning, we chilled out with the Warthogs for a few hours before setting off on a late afternoon cruise to watch the wildlife from the water.
It was a lot cooler and the guide was well informed with all sorts of detail about what we were seeing. The Black Heron who stands in water and then creates a shadow with his wings so that the prey think that his yellow feet are fish!
On a rock there is a small crocodile which is only about 4 feet long but still doesn’t look very friendly.
Hippo graze.
A solitary male elephant comes down for a drink.
And a water buffalo takes a roll in the mud to cool down.
The water buffalo who are grazing host birds which remove parisites.
And a group of crocodile in a pool snack on the carcase of a diseased elephant as the vultures stand by.
And finally, a herd of elephants with a baby come down to drink as well, the baby being protected as it cannot yet use its trunk to drink.
And by this time, we need a drink too.
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