Samstag, 20. September 2014

Beach and more game drives



The next morning we decided to go and walk on the nearby beach and spent some time there. The weather was perfect, sunny with a light breeze. 
 
Cintsa Bay


Then we went back to the lapa to have lunch and I saw a few nyalas roaming freely around the building. I was just 2 meters away from them and managed to make a picture of the youngest one. 

Young nyala

After lunch we went on a game drive and stopped to say hi to one of the reserve ostriches. This one is a female and apparently kinda crazy because she sits down for mating anytime anyone approaches her. So here she sat and moved her wings as if she wanted to dance and we could come close and touch her!!! I touched her soft neck and it felt like a soft toy!! 

A very submissive ostrich!!

Greg was trying to find one of the rhinos and found some tracks he was able to follow until we came up to less than 10 meters away from an adult rhino with its horns shaven off to prevent poachers from killing it. He was busy grazing and did not pay much attention to us. It is a very muscular animal and you would not want to be on its path!


Just after leaving the rhino we saw several giraffes far way and stopped to take a better look at them. We did get some nice shots of them. 


As we walked back to the Land Rover we passed by 2 ostriches who were picking food from the ground. Apparently we were too close because one of them lifted up her head and opened her mouth before hissing at us like in some crazy vampire movies!!! So, of course, we backed down and left her alone!  A little later we had a sundowner with an incredible reddish sunset over the ocean. 

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