Today started quietly but had unexpected twists and turns which made it an amazing wildlife day. As we set off we saw nothing, everywhere was unusually quiet, then as we passed a bend in the river we saw hundreds of wildebeest standing on a sand bank thinking about crossing - a grumpy hippo put paid to that as it chased them all back up the bank and into the bushes - we waited then drove up the river to see if they had gone upriver to cross - nothing - so we ret...

Today was our normal routine except we asked for a slightly earlier wake up call at 5.45am, to allow a little more time to drink our tea and get ready; also today we got our shower. Our first sighting was of a hippo sleeping under a bush; this was followed by an unsuccessful search for a leopard which we guessed was in the area because of frantic alarm calls from a group of baboons. Never mind I am sure they lived to fight another day and scared the leopard off....

We had tea at 6.00am but the shower we thought had arrived hadn't -John stood under it but nothing came out- forcing me to go out of the tent and check there wasn't a kink in the pipe - never fear we were still clean from last nights shower so we finished our tea, dressed and headed out for our 6.30am drive. As we tootled out we saw a porcupine snuffling along - no photo though as he ran so fast - at least 30kph because we couldn't catch him in the jeep -and di...

Our last morning in the Mara - we asked for a 5.45 wake up so we could finish our packing and be ready for a 6.30am start to our final game drive enroute to the airstrip. We had to be there for 11am - half an hour before our 1130 flight to Magurie on the Kenyan/ Tanzanian border. We said our goodbyes and headed out to see what wildlife was up and about - a hippo still grazing, 2 crowned crane, teminck's courser, several patrolling hyena, a pair of dik dik, a pai...