Sunrise this morning…..
Our last full day in Samburu….😩
Once again we found lion tracks, this time of Lgruet, the only adult male lion here.
It’s fun following tracks to try to find a lion. They are very cooperative and, unlike cheetahs and leopards, use the road to travel. I guess if they are not hunting they don’t care who sees them. Nothing will attack them. And we continue to be amazed at how far they travel in a night. Alas, we did not find Lgruet.
We found elephants.
We watched two black-backed jackals finishing eating a kill of a baby gerenuk. The poor mother was standing at a distance watching. 😰
Then we had a very exciting event! A young male leopard on the hunt.
He found a dik-dik. We had a perfect view. The leopard hid. The dik-dik had no idea the leopard was there and walked TOWARD him. The leopard began to move in.
And then ……a safari vehicle zoomed up, scared the dik-dik and the hunt was over.
Animals here in Samburu are nervous at round vehicles. That is not the case in the Mara where we head tomorrow. There are many more people there and the animals tend to ignore them.
We are off to have lunch with Shivani and her warriors. Then we have to say good-bye to our friends. 😿
Looking Out Seeing Within 