What a morning.

Started looking for cheetah. Saw two very relaxed side striped jackals in an open field and one was trying to catch birds. The cheetah search was off as the word came WILD DOGS! The race was on and after this morning we named our driver. Rather than Mario Andretti he is Mario Ambrucie.

We found the dogs in the river bed just milling around with blood on their coats so they had a kill this morning. Then we saw a lion approaching. She was walking very slowly towards the dogs. The dogs saw the lion and they were barking and keeping watch. The lion keep coming and then started running. The dogs took off quickly. The lion stopped running and one of the dogs moved closer to the lion. There was a standoff. Finally the lion gave up and walked away.

We followed the dogs down the river and the dogs in the water with big cliffs on one side was a stunning picture. There were three waterbucks behind the sandbar. The dogs started to cross to the sand bank and then a male lion appeared from behind a bush and the dogs had to change direction and run again as the lion gave chase. The waterbucks watched without moving. All this was very exciting. That is what is so addictive about a safari. You never know what is going to come next the adrenaline gets pumping.

We went back to the road to try and find the dogs and the word came there is a leopard! Choices, leopard or wild dogs. We went for wild dogs. Mario Ambrucie hit the gas and we were off again. We found the dogs a second time and followed them as they were darting in and off the road. Then they went into some thick bush and we could not get through. Hopefully this afternoon we can pick them up again.