Cradle of Humankind w/ Dr. Spok and the skulls
We flew in this...
Over this..
Then drove in this...
To our tent at Tubu Tree
First animal we saw: Blacksmith Plover
The view from our tent
The Vervet Monkey outside our tent
One of our first game drives. Apparently when the ears are out they aren't planning to kill you even if they run at the car.
Roadrunner: very dumb bird that runs in front of the car
Female Kudu
Male Kudu
Egyptian Goose
Warthog and Oxpeckers
What's left after the Leopard eats
Storks
I look placid, but I'm about to wrap my trunk around a few branches, lean back and rip off the top half of this bush.
Sunset in the motorboat.
Just like my Kitty.
Ready...
Set...
Play!
Checking out our car.
Look of love for his girlfriend.
Baobab Tree
Ibis
Fish Eagle
Vervet Monkey. Where the term blue balls came from.
Mokoro.
Reed frog. Very loud.
Breaching male hippo and animal that kills the most humans in Africa each year
Red Lechwe
Our tent at Savuti.
View from our tent. This waterhole dried up, but the Botswana govt paid to drill and runs a generator to pump water here for the tourist income.
The elephants claim the waterhole (and chase off a family of warthogs).
View of our tents at Savuti
Yellow Hornbills doing a mating dance, after which they'll mate and then when she's ready to have the babies, he'll seal her into a hole in a tree, feed her through a tiny crack, she'll drop all her feathers to make a nest, deliver the babies, grow her feathers back and then help him break the seal so the whole family can fly away.
Steenbuck female (males horns are sticking up behind the log).
Male giraffe. Females have tufts on their head bumps but the men are always fighting each other and their bumps go bald.
Lilac Breasted Roller
Pile o'lions.
Yum!
Sundowners.
Honey Badgers! Mean little Wolverine like carnivores.
Kudu
OmigodIwanttokissyou.
Mary and one of the Savuti Brothers.
Tsessebe
Savuti brothers grooming.
African Wild Cat.
Crocodile's sweat through their mouths.
Black backed jackal
My eyeball is bigger than my brain.
Pile of wild dogs.
Who had just eaten.
Characteristic warthog stance--running with their tails up looking very busy and authoritative
Male wildebeest guarding baby.
Our tent at Chitabe, our last camp.
View from lounge at Chitabe.
Morning game drive.
Slender Mongoose. Adorable little carnivore.
Male lion smelling female pee to see if she's ready to mate.
Contact calling.
Yummy. Dead buffalo.
I'm a binge eater.
Wondering where the lions are (and when they'll be done so we can eat some buffalo).
Those little dots in the water are giant man-killing hippos.
Heron
Impala. Called the McDonalds antelope because of the big M on their butts and because they're fast and everybody eats them.
OT, our guide at Chitabe, at the hide on the night we "camped out."
At the hide, "camping out"
Our bed at the hide.
Kissing mommy.
I want to play!
NO.
Baboon and baby.
Hippos warning us as they leave.
Buffalo.
Thinking of killing a buffalo.
But resting instead.
