Sight for the day: hyena running down the road with a car tyre in his mouth! Tony thought he might use it to clean his teeth!

Saw hyena last night on way to tent- their eyes glowing in the flash light.  Our escort reassured us that  they are cowards so we have nothing to fear – but I’m a coward too so not sure how that works.

Set off on the long haul down to south western Serengeti today in search of rhino. There are only 21 rhino in the Serengeti and they are tagged and monitored by rangers daily to ensure the poachers don’t get them- no wonder they hide away! And today they did this very successfully despite Tony’s persistence. 

Despite the almost total lack of wildlife today this area of the Serengeti is really beautiful – full of kopjes (pronounced copy’s) which are huge sedimentary rocky outcrops – where lions like to live. Very reminiscent of the lion king.

Our lunch spot was meant to be on one such skopje but no other tourists/trucks were around so Tony thought it best not to tempt fate of the lion encounter kind. So we ate lunch on the bank of a salt lake with a smattering of Greater Flamingos- these are large and white in colour- none the less just as beautiful as the ‘Lesser’ (pink) ones- even if in small numbers.

After lunch we started the long drive home in light rain- the first we’ve had while we’ve been out on safari. encountered various wildife along the way….