Sunday, June 28, 2015

Serengeti Ndutu

I wish I could start every day with a cup of coffee while listening to song birds and watching the sun rise.  The birds start at 6 and go for an hour.  I'm going to try and do this on my remaining days I'm here. I want to treasure every moment I can here in case I never make it back again. 

So today we are in search of lions. We have been lucky every day due to Tumainini's eagle eyes.  He seems to see everything without needing binoculars. So as we are driving we see lots of giraffes, zebras, more elephants to everyone's dismay, different birds of prey, including a group of vultures. 

I think we circled so many sections that I wondered if we were lost or we just went over the same roads twice. I should not have doubted him. As we passed a swamp, he announced there are the lions. At first no one saw them until we saw their heads out of the swamp. Then one by one, the four females walked out of the swamp followed by two male lions. But that wasn't the last.  Rhonda said she saw cubs but none of us saw them. Next thing you know a female walks out and stays by our truck. We knew at that point she was protecting the cubs.  We didn't see any cubs but we plan to check back later to hopefully find them. 

Well in the late afternoon we went in search of lion cubs and cheetahs. The cubs are very illusion especially where we were looking. But I tell you it is all about timing. We just happen to find these 3 cubs which obviously we're obviously not obeying their mother. We were able to see them before some Masai cow bells scared them into the bush. You can't find them once they go there. 


Our last attempt was to find a cheetah.  We were told where one was sighted but we drove around for at least an hour with no luck. We'll try tomorrow. 

Well the Ndutu Safari Lodge was a wonderful place to stay. We watched bush tv each night and enjoyed two great sunrises and sunsets. 


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