March 15, 2007

The wildebeest and the zebra's drinking together at the waterhole. See the little
zebra foal. He is a week or so old here and still has that pink color to him. It wont be much longer and he will look just like all the other zebras, only smaller.
3/15/07 at 12:24pm SAT:


We began having feed problems with the cam freezing. I thought for sure I would have to get out to work before it came back on, but lo and behold it did. And this is what I captured as soon as it came on. This one tusked elephant just doesn't seem to like the fill pipe that the lodge uses to keep the level of the waterhole up for the animals. He proceeds to tear it up. Apparently he was working on this job previously (while the cam was froze) because you can see the pipe already up out of the ground. So we missed the first part of the action, but here is old one tusk doing his thing.
3/15/07 at 1:49pm SAT


Old one tusk finally left that job, went to the other side of the waterhole and proceeded to clean himself up a bit before leaving down the path next to the Marula tree.
3/15/07 at 1:56pm SAT


Then we were blessed with group of giraffes. They are so graceful in spite of their size and the length of their neck. I read somewhere that when they get their drink they throw back their head, not to get the water down that long neck, but rather to get the blood back down. It gathers at their head when they are faced down like that. And we all know how dizzy that can make you. :o)
3/15/07 at 2:44pm SAT:


Later in the afternoon we had 3 zebs all milling around together and making those funny noises they make. I think 1 was a girl and the other 2 boys and they were trying to convince her to be their girlfriend.
3/15/07 at 3:55pm SAT:


Finally later that afternoon, a lone bull elephant comes to the waterhole to take a nice leisurely bath and drink. He must think this is the African Day Spa or something.
3/15/07 at 4:06pm SAT: