Friday, April 10, 2015 -
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| Muddy roads ahead! |
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| Our safari limo... |
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| Our luxurious tent at Seronera Sametu Camp |
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| A few wildebeest |
Feeling incredibly blessed to be experiencing an African massage...the bounce, bumping & swaying of our Africa Dream Safaris vehicle being expertly driven by our excellent Tanzanian guide, Peter. This is our second day in the bush of the Serengeti. We awoke to the delivery of fresh hot coffee to our tent at the Seronera Sametu Camp ( where we are staying three nights ) and enjoyed our gorgeous first sunrise in the bush before we piled into our safari vehicle and started off in search of more game.
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| Lilac Breasted Roller |
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| Our first cheetah spotting... we ended up with 20! |
Yesterday we game drove for seven hours and saw an incredible array of native Serengeti animals...cheetahs, baboons (with lots of babies), zebras, hippos, herds of wildebeest including one group of thousands, gazelles, hyenas, buffalo, elephants, warthogs & the elusive bat eared fox. We saw many beautiful birds but the prettiest was the Lilac Breasted Roller.
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| Cheers!!! |
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| First sunrise in the Serengeti |
The plan today was a full day game drive which we started at 6:30 and included a boxed breakfast and boxed lunch...then return to our camp home by "wine time", so we will out for about eleven hours.
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| Hyena |
The first find of the morning was our first lion spotting of the trip. There were three males & one female. They were not very active, two were sleeping, but we were able to get some excellent photos.
We then spotted a wildebeest herd of many thousands grazing...they went all the way to the horizon.
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| Mama with her fresh kill |
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| Her two cubs |
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| Big stretch! |
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| Cubs play with mama's catch.... |
Later on, we were truly very lucky to find a cheetah giving chase to a gazelle and then seeing her make the kill. We drove fairly close to where the kill lay and the cheetah walked away a bit and started calling and then we saw her two young cubs promptly come toward her. She needed to rest so she lay down while they nursed a while and also while they played with the kill & each other. She didn't seem very eager to start digging in....maybe she was just waiting for the audience to leave....
It's so very nice to be able to take the time to enjoy what we are seeing & not to feel rushed by a predetermined schedule or different guests' interests. Being able to take a truly private safari has made this a trip of a lifetime for us!
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| Breakfast is served!!! |
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Our companions at breakfast....
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Peter drove us ahead to a ginormous wildebeest herd that stretched from horizon to horizon. We guessed there were at least 30,000 if not more. There were also many zebras with this wildebeest herd. Apparently, they do tend to travel together.
This is a quite unusual phenomenon for this time of year as the wildebeest migration has usually passed this point at this time & are headed back north. This year the weather was different than normal and when the wildebeests sensed the return of the rain to the southern area after a dry spell, they turned and headed south again. Apparently they have amazing sense of smell.
We stopped in the middle of the vast herd & Peter laid breakfast out on the hood of our vehicle. We had fresh hot coffee, fresh fruit, boiled egg, sausages, toast & marmalade and grape juice in a very leisurely manner...& we were able to eat outside instead of inside the vehicle. This has been an amazing start to our twelve day safari.
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