Today we decided to opt for both drives in the conservancy that surrounds Cottars with tomorrow taking lunch and going for a day in the Masai Mara.
It was a cold start to the day - still lots of wildebeest & zebra around and noticeably turning the long grass into short well trodden grass. Our first sighting, from another two guides totally in tune with their environment, was of two male lions munching away on a wildebeest breakfast (today's photo). They were surrounded by their pride, including several curious cubs watching on but it became clear that they had already eaten and the males had come late to the party.
We had opted to have our breakfast in the bush and expected it to be a packed affair until we arrived on a river bank to see the tables were set and the chef ready to serve a bush breakfast along with a couple of really nice American guests, who were working in Kenya and having a few days away.
On our way back we saw a wildebeest apparently collapsed - sometimes they recover and get up but when we returned in the afternoon it had clearly taken a turn for the worse and curled up its toes and was now a food source for the vultures.
Before our evening sojourn I again ventured to the house pool for cold exercise!
On our afternoon drive we looked to no avail for two teenage lions who had been expelled from the pride.
While watching the sun go down we saw the sky darken and lightening over the Mara River -all good for the grass and encouraging the wildebeest to cross into the Mara.as we left we almost ran over the two teenage lions and couldn't work out how we had missed them unless they were lying deeper in the undergrowth.