The Chance of a Lifetime...

A kill! A kill!!

Tuesday we just kind of hung out until afternoon drive at 4. This was soooooo good!! we saw tons of cool things and had alot of fun...we went down to where we saw the 3 male lions earlier and actually drove out on to the peninsula type thing that they were on. It was tough getting in, through all of the bamboo and brush but we made it eventually and it was great. At first we only saw 2 lions- older ones with manes, they are part of a group of 6 males who have been travelling together, nomads...we drove around to the other side of them, killed a few more trees along the way, Andre says that the trees will just pop back up, some do, some don't. Once we got to the other side we saw that there was a third male there...we hung out with them for a while before making the treck back up the embankment...this was the exciting part. When we drove in we pushed all the trees in one direction which made things a little difficult to get back out, it was also a little slick because of the rain in the morning. After several tries, many trees which didn't pop back up, and alot of laughing we finally made it up the embankment. Mum took a video of it on her camera, its pretty hilarious. That was definitely a highlight haha. We stopped along the way somewhere to have a Poop Spitting Contest, yes, poop spitting. Barney picked up some Impala poop- pellets- and Andre drew a line in the dirt...we couldn't go over the line and I forget what the winner/loser was supposed to do but it involved alcohol. After 4 attempts Dave finally made it more than a couple of feet, Barney's went pretty far, as did Andre's, and I can't remember if one of them won or if it was my dad, but it was pretty amusing and now I can say that I've spat poop. Nice, I'll tack that onto the bottom of my resume. After this little escapade Barney offered to let me sit on his tracking seat on the hood/bonnet of the truck, so of course, I did :)
It wasn't long before I spotted a Leopard! haha!! no joke!! So I climbed back into the truck and we went to go see it. It was a large male and he had his eyes fixed on some Impala that we couldn't see. We watched him for a while and then he stalked off towards the Impala so Andre positioned us so that we could see if the leopard decided he wanted to eat one :) We sat for a while but the Impala must have heard him or seen him because one of them snorted (their warning that something is going to eat them) and they took off. So no chase and no eating but it was still pretty cool to see. After this we went to go see the 3 lions who had moved to the side of a road and were just chillin, grooming, yawning and getting ready to go hunting. They were wrestling around and grooming eachother, it was cute. From there I think we headed home, and we weren't far from the lodge when Barney pointed his flashlight at a Jackal in the road, it looked at us, almost as if it was just going to sit there- deer in headlights style- but then it took off, Barney followed it with the flashlight and it caught a Hare!! "A Kill!! A Kill!! We just whitnessed a kill!!" haha it was pretty exciting and kind of strange that the Jackal was in the road one second and eating a Hare the next! We went home, decided on a time for dinner and then went and showered etc, Laura and Sara came over to our room and we started drinking before dinner...we warned Andre that it was going to be a big night, and that it was! Dinner was amazing once again, the food here is unbelievable!! I ate Eland which is a large ummm thing, like a Buffalo or something like that. It was realllllly good! Oh I think I forgot to say that I ate Ostrich steak at lunch and that was delicious too! Anyways, so after dinner and alot we migrated to the bar and thats where the real festivities began!
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posted by Kirby @ 2:44 AM