| Welcome to our July/August Newsletter. Following on from our last update, Wonky Tusk and the family of elephants are still visiting for breakfast. The young female of the herd has been trying to make her own breakfast at times. She has learnt how to open the kitchen door with her trunk having discovered a tug on the padlock opens the door. It just shows how intelligent elephants are. |
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July/August 2010
Written by Tom Mees
& Alison Cockerell
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The lions are being seen on a regular basis and sometimes closer than planned. Alison was heading back to the lodge the other evening, hearing a rustling of leaves outside her house, thinking there was a hippo walking around, checking with the torch and then suddenly whilst standing on the door step saw a male lion close by. A couple of days prior, four lions had taken down a buffalo at elephant crossing, they were following the buffalo herd across the Luangwa River and walking round the back of the camp. Just a magical sound of the lions calling at night.
We have also had a few other visitors come and look over the camp to check out the location!
Victor came back from a night drive the other day all excited as he had seen a baby honey badger, which was a first for Victor.
The carmine bee-eaters are just starting to build in numbers, getting ready for nest building to begin by the end of this month.
August will be the first of our camp outs, where you take a walk through the bush to a wonderful location looking across the Luangwa River.
Tom and Victor have found an amazing location, where you can enjoy a sundowner watching the elephants crossing the river, hippos playing in the water and the lions calling across the river bank. Sleeping under a mossie net with the clear African sky above looking at the stars. Dinner around the camp fire, chatting about all the great bush stories. Look out for the photos in the next newsletter.
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