It’s our last full day at the Linkwasha Lodge and Hwange National Park. The morning drive took us through an area of mixed woodlands, grasslands and beautiful vistas.
There’s quite a variety of wildlife that lives in these zones including giraffes, wildebeest, zebra, impala & eland. It’s interesting that many of the species group together while grazing as a defense mechanism.
A couple of young zebras engaged in some horseplay (or is it ‘zebra play’?).
During our lunch break, Dick took some time to get pictures of the camp facilities. It’s a fantastic place that would surely be worth a return trip. One downside is how much guys kept trying to get us to eat more. The phrase used more than once was: “The more you eat, the more you see”.
On the afternoon drive we came across a troop of baboons hanging out and playing in the forest. It was like watching a group of kindergarteners on the playground. Hilarious!
Livinstone wanted to make sure we had another look at the cheetah brothers and quickly located them perched on a tree looking for dinner and relaxing. They seemed to be fixated on a herd of wildebeest grazing at a nearby pan but didn’t make any moves towards the critters while we were there.
We’re going to miss Livingstone. He found us another great spot to watch the sunset and enjoy a traditional Sundowner.
Our final night in camp was pretty interesting. One of the guides (armed) normally escorts us back to our sleeping quarters once it gets dark outside. While having dinner a rather large group of elephants with young gathered between us and our tent. We waited with our guide for a while hoping they would disperse. No luck. One technique the guides use to get the ellies moving is to move a flashlight beam back and forth in their direction which gets them to move on. Sometimes. Not so effective this time. As we headed down the walkway to our tent the elephants started getting pretty vocal and our guide (who was quite nervous about the situation) just said “move – now – fast”. He got us to safety. We heard the beasts loudly trumpeting at him as he headed back to the common area.