“Hippo” night was followed by a lovely breakfast overlooking the Nile River. It’s a beautiful site here with lots of nice touches such as comfy sofas with a river view and fresh popcorn before dinner. Nothing is too much trouble but the price tag for a night’s stay is pretty high so having collected our packed lunches we moved on again. I am becoming an expert at packing up the car in under 15 minutes.
We jumped on a small river boat for a trip to the falls and were lucky enough to see some huge crocodiles. The hippos were now snoozing contentedly in the water unaware that they had kept me awake half the night – thanks guys. The boat driver obviously had read all the hippo horror stories and sped away from any that looked like they might fancy rounding off the night’s activities with a spot of boat eating for breakfast. A lone giraffe, several waterbuck and some beautiful birds kept us entertained til we arrived at the base of the falls. The weather was sunny but cool and it was a very pleasant way to spend a morning.
We carried on into the Northern part of the park where Drew practiced her off road skills successfully, I was less successful in hiding my complete terror at this experience. Athough lunchtime is not usually the best for game spotting we saw quite a few animals who were more than happy to pose for photo opportunities. We chose a top picnic spot alongside a herd of giraffe, spent ages watching a warthog family and enjoyed the watching the oribi (a small deer) leap out of the ditches unexpectedly.
As we left the park gates a smallish group of elephants who were more than happy to ignore us were doing elephant stuff a short distance from the road. We watched 2 young ones pushing each other around and generally bickering until one of the adults had enough and marched in between them. So far it seems that elephants prefer to spend their time everywhere they are not supposed to be.
More hippos predicted for tonight but I have solid walls in my little African style banda and best of all an ensuite bathroom so I can sleep in peace even if they decide to squelch past my door.
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