Last night at Etosha Safari Camp. Kitchy but OK. Very bad musical duo singing some reggae (No Woman No Cry), a little nostalgia (My Bonnie Lies over the Ocean) and the African classic, The Lion Sleeps Tonight.
This morning got delayed checking out due to credit card connectivity but it turned out for the best. As it was we just passed the camp inside the park when we both saw something big and yellow in the yellow grass a couple hundred yards off the road. LIONS. A male and a female coming our way. Only us and one other car there for a while. He was roaring and they were both scanning the horizon as a second male passed beyond them keeping a good distance.
The pair stood and sat and turned and posed for quite some time before crossing the road in front of us and then circling back behind to ultimately head off in the direction from which they originally appeared. Gorgeous.
The rest of the morning has been understandably somewhat anticlimatic. There was something in the air because five jackals were frolicking, the springbuck were springing around all over the place and even a lone wildebeest was prancing and bucking for no apparent reason. But still they were just jackals, springbucks and wildebeest. No black rhino.
So we toured around and around until we came to a good watering hole to sit for lunch and to hope for something stunning. Lots and lots of animals: kudu, impala (our first here), oryx, hartebeest, zebra, quinea hen and our first warthog here. Very interesting dance as they all cautiously took their turns but alas nothing but us here looking for lunch :-)
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