4TH APRIL - JOSHUA SPIES
With the buffalo down it was onto the elephant part of the safari …WOW! This bush is thick and getting stuck every day isn’t all that much fun (the novelty of using the winch wears off pretty fast !!!)
There is a lot of movement though and every day we have been following tracks of some really great bulls. Even though we have been getting among the elephants, with several days left I am still being pretty choosy ..
Yesterday we were so close that we could hear them breathing, we even got a few glimpses through the bush at about 8 yards but couldn’t quite see the tusks, then the wind changed and what we thought was just two animals turned out to be a whole herd! They ran into the open and stood there, ears out and trunks up just looking for us, very exciting stuff …
The birdlife and butterflies at this time of the year are simply stunning , the bush, which is more like jungle, is filled with birdcalls and hundreds of butterflies, mainly the “white” family but there are lots of little common grass yellows as well.
Well its nine pm, we have been going since 4 am this morning so I am going to sign off ….