Thursday, 27th January
Our safari is nearing its end. We were sorry to say goodbye to Joe and Barbs at Sayara yesterday morning and drive south, back to Ndutu. Joe led the way out to the main track by a better route than the one by which we had arrived two days before and bad us farewell at the Kichwa Tembo (elephant skull) junction. Three and a half hours later we arrived in Seronera, filled up the Landcruiser with gas and ate our lunch at the visitors’ centre. We both had lumps in our throats as we left Seronera behind, hurrying to make it to the Naabi Hill gate by the appointed time on our park permit. We were at Ndutu by tea time.
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| Lioness with three cubs |
We spent today enjoying early morning and evening game drives and relaxing all day. We saw a lioness with three very small cubs both times. There was an orphan wildebeast lying all alone on the soda pan by Lake Ndutu. He was only a few days old and mooing piteously. He got up and tried to find a place to nurse somewhere on our vehicle. It was the hardest thing to resist giving it a drink of water and letting it follow the car to a shady place. Over lunch at the lodge we talked about how much we both wish we could find a way to come back to live in the Serengeti for a time at least and possible ways this could be achieved.
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| Wildebeast orphan lying on the salt pan by Lake Ndutu |
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| Birds at Ndutu Spa |
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| One of the four genets who live in the roof of the lodge and come out in the evening to play on the rafters. |
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| Me a snob? |
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| Giraffe family |
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| Jackal cub |
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| Love Bird family |
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| Wildebeast |
Tomorrow we head back to Arusha, where we’ll return the Landcruiser and spend the night with Jo and Judy before catching our plane home to Yellowknife, via Amsterdam and Calgary.
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