Safari

Fourteen of us travelled to the Mukumi National Park. The first thing we saw was a giraffe right by the main road with trucks thundering by!. Then quickly followed baboons, a huge herd of impala with many young and 3 elephants. And that was even before we had gone through the official entrance!!
We saw a surprising amount of game. A trio of lone male buffalo, a scattering of impala and zebra and then a group of elephants by the road studiously ignoring us. We than came to the waterhole with a small family of zebra anxiously waiting their turn.In the watering hole was an enormous crocodile and in the mud flats were 5 small ones keeping absolutely still. The baboons were having a very nervous time and the zebras were cautious too. At the other end of the pool were a collection of about a dozen hippos who did little except snort and belch. We stopped for a picnic and photo opportunity. After lunch the baboons made short work of the remnants in the waste bin.
We then saw many giraffe, such graceful and mildly curious animals. They looked at us quizzically for a while and then would gracefully move away without effort but covering great distances quickly. We then went off in search of Lions who had been seen earlier. Despite a short detour inadvertantly off road we eventually we found them , a large male and 2 females snoozing under a tree several hundred yards off. Good to see but the Giraffes were better!!