Day 4. At the gate at 05:30, because that’s how we roll. Direction: zebra, of course.
When we got to the “scene of the crime” there were three police two open tour vehicles on the scene already — they must have come in Kruger Gate and floored it down the S65 to get here before us — IMO the main reason why the dirt roads are in such an appalling condition — these guys are on a mission sometimes, and rightly so — but they need to be controlled and they are not.
Also on scene were a lot of hyenas and vultures. See the dirt on the road where I’m guessing a hyena “stole” the guts that was lying next to the road.
Of course the hyenas keep sneaking up and now and then they get chased away again.
But eventually one of them got brave enough to grab most of what was left.
Now it’s the vulture’s turn to try to steal something.
And the hyena’s turn to chase.
By half past seven there was very little left. So we did just that… because we had to go hook the teardrop and haul it up to Letaba.
Pitstop at Satara.
And just north of that, under a tree, a lazy horse.
Now remember, I’m towing the teardrop, jockey-ing is kind of difficult. And there were cars. Plenty cars. Some people made their own road next to the road (illegal, but I won’t report them, they were doing it to get past, not to hog the leopard).
(We took many photos).
We could have stayed all day, but Letaba was still quite a long way off.
So after parking the teardrop of course we went out again, and found this hyena family living in a culvert on the H9.
Tiny babies… yay! Not great photographs… meh.
Big five score for the day: 4/5 (no chubby unicorns)