We are now at Narina at Lion Sands. So wonderful to be back in bush. The Sabie River is right in front of the lodge. On arrival elephants were walking toward to lodge. Two mothers and three babies one pretty young. They came right in front of us as we sat down to lunch. Playing in the water with the little one waving his trunk around and not yet controlling it well.

Lunch was outstanding but we were all anxious to go out so we skipped dessert and loaded up on the vehicles. Within minutes of leaving the camp we heard lions had been found. They were two young males doing what lions do sleeping and raising their heads now and then. For those on Cheetah 1 these were the two first males on the giraffe carcass at River Lodge. We left the lions and then heard alarm calls from a Impala. Our driver Ben wanted to investigate so went off road to check it out. We could not find anything. Then we went to river overlook and saw a bigger herd of elephant. Also the baboons were going crazy in a tree. Talk about a lot of noise. It was a stunningly beautiful spot with big trees, the river and boulders. Now it was getting late so we started to head back. The moon was unbelievable. It was a full moon that that kept peeking through clouds. The effect I will never forget. When it finally came above the clouds it looked so big and bright. Nothing like like the sunrise, sunset and the full moon in. Africa.

Dinner was outstanding. Most popular was Kudu but I opted for the chicken. They also had Norwegian salmon. As soon as we finished people headed for their rooms. We had a power outage from the main source of power. Amazing how dark it was. But very quickly they switched to the Narina generators so all was well. This morning the power was back to normal.