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Sometimes you go to the elephants, other times they come to you. This afternoon just after I left you, a call went up for us all to grab our stuff and get “saddled up”. A herd of maybe thirty or so elephant was meandering through the brush not 100 yards from camp. It may seem like it would have been fun to just walk over to them and say hi, but, of course to just go walking up to several dozen elephant wouldn’t have been prudent.
Jul 20, 2004 4th Bridge Camp, Moremi Game Reserve, Botswana
Tom Schueneman2006-03-27 15:36:52
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tell that they were aware of us and weren’t comfortable. It looked as if some mothers were being extremely protective of their young. We left them alone. I wondered if this group may have been the same group that Alwyn had heard in distress this morning, and he said that it probably was. They obviously weren’t having a good day.
Our evening game drive was capped off with another sighting of the same pride of lions we saw this morning. Once again sauntering right in between our trucks and paying us no mind whatsoever. No sound but the clicks of shutters. I’d almost expect one of the lions to stop and ask for a model release. But that’s just silly.
On the drive in we stopped to admire the sun setting over a lagoon, a heron silhouetted against the orange glow. I can tell I’m really going to like the sunsets here out in the bush.
Tomorrow we have a morning game drive and then get a boat to go up-river for two nights on the Okavango Delta at the Xunaga Lodge.
I’m going to sign off for now as I’m not feeling all that well; a little nauseous and headache-y. I took my malaria medication after lunch this afternoon, and during the game drive started to get the queasy stomach. Now I feel like what I’ve read it feels like when you start to have malaria. Maybe my little pills are actually malaria-in-a box instead of malaria-cure-in-a-box. (I don’t really think I’ve got malaria, I haven’t really had a chance to contract it yet, and I’m sure I’d really feel worse than I do now... No worries!)
Alwyn suggests that there is little chance of anyone contracting malaria. He’s never taken anything for it and for all his years in the bush has never contracted it. I think I may stop taking the pills and see what happens. If I get malaria, I’ll just start taking them again.
Anyway, it’s all part of the adventure. Though I do look forward to a good nights sleep.
More tomorrow.
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