So after 2 weeks of absence (which will all be explained in due time) I am back at Lion Camp. Didn't miss much except an elephant was killed not 5 minutes from here...natural causes seem to be the culprit but the whole thing has made for some interesting times around here. Criston our brave ZAWA guy had a time of it inspecting the corpse (which is now missing half a trunk thanks to lazy opportunists who can't be bothered to hunt for fresh meat.) He will also remove the tasks and hand them over to authorities thereby staving off opportunist poachers. Other news; at about 8:30pm while we were polishing off our struddel desert (cranberries and apple with lots of cinnamon) Joseph the extremely capable bartender yelled out:
"Bwana the rions are there on the plains"
Off course we ran to investigate and sure enough the yellow cats were on the prowl, after buffalo. You could see their hungry fiery yellow eyes glaring and darting like enormous angry fireflies in the dark. Solid yellow machines gliding through the tall grass in slow motion stalking the slightly distressed herd of buffalo. It all made for a great movie when savage roars were heard as well as what seemed like a scuffle, alas it was a phantom kill. I think our interfering flashlights were the cause of this mission being aborted.
In another Wafua, as the water recedes to the hot thirsty sun the hippos are now podding in large groups of 20-30 strong. Am looking forward to seeing 100s of hippos squished in one little pond, this to come very soon as the sun has been relenting in sucking up all the water from the lagoons.
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