October 09, 2002
5/10/02 Serenghetti Nat'l Park, Tanzania
5/10/02 Serenghetti Nat'l Park, Tanzania (phill)
Yesterday we got our jeep back and went off in search of wildlife. We woke up about 6am becuase most of the animals are active mainly in the morning. Within seconds of leavign our camp we're face to face with some Giraffe's. It's amazing to see these creatures up close and actually share eye contact with them. We snap tons of pictures and head on. As we go we stop to see Hippo's in the water with birds on them, tons of Gazelle's and wilderbeste's. The first big sighting though is a Leopard up in a tree. These re quite rare to see and none of the other jeeps (outside of the 3 in our convoy) got to see one the whole time. On we go and find elephants. EWlephants are actually the top killer of human's surprisingly enough. The whole time I'm checking in my wildlife book about which animal we're looking at. Our guide has taken a KEEN interest in my book (Levi's his name, all Africa
n's we meet seem to have a western brand as a name!). Our first sighting of a Lioness was totally brillient, but as we approached we could see the Lion chilling in the sun too. They were devouring a gazelle although we didn't get to see it killed.
Throughout the day we came within feet (truely) of some of the worlds most dangerous animals. At one point a lion got so close that we hid inside the truck. I mean it was almost within touching distance, how cool is that!
Afgter the Serenghetti we went to the Ngororo Crater (mispelled but I'm in a rush!). Here we finally saw the last of the big 5: the Rhino. We also got to see a Hyena attack a group of about 1000 zebra's and come out empty handed!
Okay, out of time. Sorry!
Posted by Admin at October 9, 2002 01:20 AM