Saturday, 18 December 2010

Around Orpen

Monday, 8th November 2010

We rose at 5.30am and went on a drive. We saw the usual antelopes, zebra, and giraffe. Later we also caught glimpses of banded mongooses, dwarf mongooses, a scops owl, baboons and a family of ground hornbills.

Blue Wildebeest

Baboon with baby

Scops owl

Dwarf mongoose on Termite Mound

Ground Hornbills

The wild life in the camp was even better- we had a family of dwarf mongoose, and big lizards living right by our accommodation. The waterhole was also very entertaining. We had a short swim to escape the heat, but the insect life in the pool got too much for us!

Large sand skinks
A cheeky hornbill looking for food

We ventured out again at 3:30 and see much the same as in the morning but cut it a little fine getting back to camp - we passed two vehicles stopped for speeding then passed through the gates literally as they were being closed!

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