The bed we got into in the early hours of this morning was freezing although we warmed it and ourselves up relatively quickly I awoke at 0530am with cold feet and had to put on my socks - feet warm I slept on until 0830am. John ventured onto the cool verandah and collected the flask of hot water that had been left there at 6.30 am ish and made us a two mugs of hot tea each - a much needed wakeup before venturing for a hot shower. Brunch was just after 10 - the m...

We were up before the wake up call doing last minute packing before our final game drive at Waterbuck. I also got a small bag ready for a quick swim pre breakfast and before leaving. After coffee we set off hoping for another leopard sighting as the guides knew where she was albeit she was in deep difficult bush. The elephants had just passed through the area above our camp leaving a tree across the road in their wake. We found them and watched them for a while...

We awoke early and as we had tea and coffee makings in the room John made us a lovely cup of tea - before I had a shower. As I picked up the glass shampoo bottle I said 'I don't know why they always seem to have glass bottles in Africa' - then in the shower while trying to get the reluctant shampoo out it slipped out of my hands and smashed on the shower floor! I pushed the glass to one side, finished my shower told Elia when we met up for our pre drive coffee at...

I woke before 5am and could hear a strange screeching outside, I checked with Enoch who did the wake up call and he said it was the pearl spotted owlet. As I went across for coffee, Kim and Ionna returned from the treehouse they heard lots of noises including two leopards and didn't get too much sleep! Consequently John, Kim and I joined Enoch on the walk which left from camp while Ionna went back to bed to catch up on her sleep! Not far from the tree house we fo...

I awoke before 5am, showered and was in the mess tent for a necessary coffee by 5.40am. The day dawned less windy than yesterday but it was not certain it was calm enough to walk - as in wind you cannot hear the animals. However Enoch thought it might be possible to drive to a location then walk - so we were prepared for every eventuality! We set off in the Landrover and did indeed park up for short walk - we had a good sighting of rhino before they headed into t...