Blogs from Moremi Game Reserve, North-West, Botswana, Africa - page 3

Ultimate Safari Day. For those of you who don't want to read the whole blog, skip to the part below, starting with Lions. Up early this morning, which would be our pattern for the rest of our days on safari. Breakfast buffet at the hotel, load up the luggage on a cart that is pulled behind the safari vehicle. Glad we brought duffle bags ined with orange garbage bags. Most everyone else has regular luggage, and it would get pretty beat up and dusty over the next days, to be sure. This was a mobile camping safari, meaning that our camp moved with us from place to place. We would be staying in privately-booked special group campsites, so all on our own. It was nice to learn that we would not be staying in any public ... read more

Gabriel arrived at camp looking exhausted, but with adrenalin still clearly pumping. He briefly confirmed what Femke had already radio-ed in. The two of them had spent the night with a newly-identified pride of lion and wanted to collar the “matriarch” lioness as part of their research into large predator interactions. Anne-Lise - somehow, despite the early hour, already bright-eyed and chicly turned out, albeit in a practical bush manner (as you might expect of the French in Africa) - went off to prepare her drug and dart supplies with Louis’s help, while Gabriel made sandwiches for his starving colleague and himself. Meanwhile, Andrew co-ordinated vehicles and personnel; would we like to come along? Pope. Catholic. If I could have bitten his hand off - and if there had been any point - I would. I ... read more