KWHAI TO SAVUTI 91km

Monday 21st February 

Left Khwai earlier than planned and headed for Savuti after coffee and a rusk, the morning ritual. As we got on to the main dirt road we came across a heard of elephants in a large waterhole where I parked at the edge of the water and watched for ages as they kept on coming, the youngsters headed straight in and played with each other as the parents watched on , not happy where I had parked.

We reached Savuti around 3:30pm and then had some serious thunder and lightning for about forty five minutes ,then set up camp which consists of parking the Troopy level and taking out our black boxes which contain food, utensils and clothing. The fridge works great keeping stuff real cold and the lithium battery lasts about a day without being charged.

Fred found a lodge nearby where he booked in and lived in luxury. The Germans were in camp but only could stay one night and were short on fuel, but were able to buy some after a bit of bribery and J&B. We had a nice braai and the night sky was crystal clear with all the stars ablaze.

The following day Charmain  and I went on an early game drive but didn't see didly squat ,so headed  over to Fred's lodge for lunch with him which was a real treat.

We joined Fred and Obie on a game drive and got to see a magnificent lion on top of a dune, but couldn't find the other three that were there earlier in the day or the wild dogs that they saw in the morning. 

We joined Fred and Obie on their 6am game drive and it was off the charts. We came across a pride of 12 lions all laying together, so Obie got us situated up close where we just sat and watched them interact and stroll around. Then maybe ten elephants which were in the hood realized they were heading straight into them and began to charge at full speed as they had some babies amongst them. It was unreal how they chased the one lion away and the pride just stood and watched and then a stranger on his own came by real close in full charge and trumpeting angrily. The lions made a half hearted attempt  to go after him, but then were all spread out, but three of them stalked two elephants but also gave up.

We then left and had some coffee and biscuits under a Boabab tree where we missed the two cheetahs that had been sighted there earlier.