Friday, August 29 (cont.)


After a bit, we came to a huge watering hole. This is why winter is one of the best times to be here. The land really dries up, and you find animals of all kinds congregating around the watering holes that are still there.
This one had two wildebeest butting heads, impalas, a huge herd of buffalo, and zebras.




Why is that crane just standing there?








He's standing on a hippo, lol. There were two of them there, and he would jump back and forth from one to the other when his perch dipped under water.








You can tell this baobab tree is big, but it's hard to get an idea of how large it really is.


We drove for a bit without seeing anything, and after a while I said it looks like nothing even lives in this part of the park.
Immediately after I said it, a warthog ran across the road right in front of our car. It kinda turned into a running joke -- anytime we started thinking we were in a desolate area that was inhabited by nothing, we would immediately see a warthog - it happened 4 or 5 times.


A family of them. The little ones look like they have mullets - they reminded me of Rusty from Squidbillies.




This thing was in one of the camps that we stopped at to stretch and take a break. I don't know if it meant poisonous to eat, or poisonous just to touch, but it didn't look inviting.


Sometimes you just have to wait on the animals to get out of the way.








We finally saw lions. These guys were a little more than 100 yards off the road, so this is the best picture I could get, but you could see them perfectly with binoculars.
One is laying on its side between the two trees (the way Metzger 'relaxes'), and one is lounging to the right, near the bush. There were actually three of them, but the third one is behind the leaning tree - you can just barely see the edge of it. Sometimes the one on the right would turn its head and just watch us for a minute before turning back. It's amazing to see these things this close, and completely in the wild.




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