We had a 0545 wake up call and tea tray, with a shower following at 0600 and breakfast at 0630....porridge again by special request! These timings enabled us to be away by 0700 on an all day game drive to the Ndutu area....which is about 3 hours to the north. What a day - it was packed with interesting sightings and it started as we left the camp with a giraffe, quickly followed by an augur buzzard sitting on a termite mound ( its head was muddy so guess it had...

Another thunderstorm was in full flow at getting up time - 6.00am- so I lay listening to the rain and the river which you could tell was higher as a result of the storms. The rain soon stopped and allowed a dry walk to the mess tent albeit the grass was very wet. Hot porridge set is up for the day and at 0715 we were away walking the 12 miles back to main camp. With the wet grass my feet were nearly as wet as yesterday when I fell in the river added to which was ...

After our 6.00 am tea tray and bucket shower we went to the mess tent for breakfast as we had decided to go for a another slightly longer walk. We set off at 7am with our guide, spotter and an old Masai, wearing traditional Masai dress and a woolly hat! He led the walk and we double translation as he spoke to our spotter in Masai, he translated it into Swahili and spoke to our guide who translated it again into English for us - it seemed to work and nothing seeme...

Up at 6 ......well the tea arrived and for the first time we were stuck to the mattress. John relented first and got the tea tray and made the tea - he then quickly showered but didn't shave I quickly showered and we arrived just 5 minutes late - but it could have been so much more! Because the guide and vehicle are only for us it meant we were not impacting on anybody else......otherwise I am sure we would have wiggled faster! We took a packed breakfast with u...