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21st July 2005

We have been in Etosha now for 9 days staying at each of the three camps. It is a simply stunning place to see game.

For example we have seen:

Herd of 26 Elephant at Kalkhuewl
A lone Lioness eating a giraffe carcass at Klein Namutoni
Literally hundreds of Zebra crossing the track at Okerfontein
An African Wild Cat at Kalkhuewl which jumped into the air from the top of an Acacia to catch birds
20 Giraffe at Klein Namutoni mouring the death of the one refered to above
Red hartebeest at Springfontein
Nyalas (a bit like Kudu) at Goas
Enormous herds of Black-faced Impala at Goas
Eland at Goas
Black Rhino and spotted Hyena at Moringa
2 young male Lions at Salvadora hunting Zebra (rather inexpertly!)
20 Giraffe at Klein Namutoni mouring the death of the one refered to above
Enormous herds of Black-faced Impala at Goas
30+ Elephant at Rjetfontein
Black Rhino at Moringa including two suckling calves
Leopard on the road from Halali to Goas which we watched for around 30 minutes
Lions near Salvadora on a ridge
50+ Oryx (Gemsbok) at Nebrownii
Rhino, 3 Lions and an Elelphantall together at Nebrownii
No less than 9 Rhino and 3 Lions hunting a Giraffewhich escaped (only just!)
90-100 Elelphant at the aptly named Olifantsbad

Not a bad roll call eh?!

The photo highlights will have to wait for better bandwidth for upload (probably South Africa in a few weeks time) as even the thumbnails of the highlights are 500 kilobytes and that just isnt practical!

On to the Skeleton Coast soon, more news then….