EAGLE OWL AND CAPE FOX
EAGLE OWL AND CAPE FOX
Everything went as planned yesterday afternoon. We enjoyed our long nap, worked on updating the blog, and went in the pool twice to cool off. It is a salt water pool and our bathing suits were stiff with the salt. They could almost stand up by themselves so we rinsed them out in the fresh water tap and hoped they'd be dry by morning. Little doubt of that in this extremely dry climate.
After a spot of tea - more food - this time samosas and caramel pudding cake (we asked that we be saved a slice for dinner's dessert, we set out on our hunt for brown hyena. The first notable sighting was of a honey badger being closely watched by a jackal and a pale chanting goshawk hoping to steal the badger's supper. Unbelievably, the jackal managed to steal a scorpion right from the badger's mouth. The badger turned and we could see how they come by their ferocious reputation. He wasn't
a happy camper. TK bent the rules again and kept us out past sunset so we were able to see more things nocturnal like the eagle owl in the headlights, and a cape fox hunting for rodents. The fox pounced continually but we didn't see him catch anything. Glen hadn't seen this fox for ten years so it was yet another rare sighting.
Dinner at the camp was, we all agreed, the best one we've had on the trip so far - a delicious Indonesian beef dish was the main course with some deliciously flavoured vegetable dishes. The explosion of tastes in our mouths had us muttering "MMMMM". We finished up with our two desserts - the one from dinner and the one from tea.
Then it was up to our bedroom under the stars for another sleep out in the fresh air. It is amazing sleeping underneath the Milky Way. What look like clouds are actually billions of stars twinkling close together.
Everything went as planned yesterday afternoon. We enjoyed our long nap, worked on updating the blog, and went in the pool twice to cool off. It is a salt water pool and our bathing suits were stiff with the salt. They could almost stand up by themselves so we rinsed them out in the fresh water tap and hoped they'd be dry by morning. Little doubt of that in this extremely dry climate.
After a spot of tea - more food - this time samosas and caramel pudding cake (we asked that we be saved a slice for dinner's dessert, we set out on our hunt for brown hyena. The first notable sighting was of a honey badger being closely watched by a jackal and a pale chanting goshawk hoping to steal the badger's supper. Unbelievably, the jackal managed to steal a scorpion right from the badger's mouth. The badger turned and we could see how they come by their ferocious reputation. He wasn't
a happy camper. TK bent the rules again and kept us out past sunset so we were able to see more things nocturnal like the eagle owl in the headlights, and a cape fox hunting for rodents. The fox pounced continually but we didn't see him catch anything. Glen hadn't seen this fox for ten years so it was yet another rare sighting.
Dinner at the camp was, we all agreed, the best one we've had on the trip so far - a delicious Indonesian beef dish was the main course with some deliciously flavoured vegetable dishes. The explosion of tastes in our mouths had us muttering "MMMMM". We finished up with our two desserts - the one from dinner and the one from tea.
Then it was up to our bedroom under the stars for another sleep out in the fresh air. It is amazing sleeping underneath the Milky Way. What look like clouds are actually billions of stars twinkling close together.
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