I hope I remember to log out again, or the next message you get from me could be from Debbie or Ralph. It is much, MUCH cooler here today.

The "beans" that I waited to spill is, we found a whole pack of wild dogs yesterday morning, on Leopard Hills property. All indications point to their setting up a home here, but that doesn't help Ngaire who is at Madikwe. According to Duncan, Ngaire is no longer speaking to him and Debbie's job may be shaky. We are all fairly sure that once the initial rage is past, Ngaire will begin to come around. There are adults and babies in the pack; we saw four adults this morning out on a hunt, but they crossed into Singita's property and we couldn't follow.

No exciting elephant charges here, even with some "up close and personal" encounters. We found a hyena den and there was another mother nursing her cub. We saw hippo's out of the water last night, but it was too dark to take pictures. Then they all (five or six of them) RAN back and dived into the water. Mark said he could see something else in the grass, and suddenly a little baby hippo came running out and hopped into the water, too.

The leopard who was lounging on Debbie's verandah yesterday visited the gym this morning. Pictures are reportedly going to be put on the blog. We hear there was an elephant directly behind our verandah early, but the drapes were closed and we didn't see it. There was a kudu grazing at our front door, then it went around to our back "yard".