6 June (cont)

We left again at 15h00 and we decided to go North. We saw giraffe just as we left Urikaruus. They looked like they were making their way to the waterhole. We decided to drive to Craig Lockhart and back. We saw many animals on the way there which made me think that there were no predators around. We sat a while at Craig Lockhart and then headed back to camp. Just as we got back onto the road we saw a wild cat sitting on my side of the road….the sun was not in a bad position for a photo but no doubt kitty would run before we got there. Well, this cat was in no rush …I think it was waiting for something to pop up out of a burrow.









http://video.tinypic.com/player.php?v=6fjxxmp
It was one of the best wild cat sightings that we had had in a long while. After that I came across this bird that was begging to have it’s photo taken…..not sure exactly what it is though…..I am still confused with all these juvenile gabars and banded goshawks.



We just made it back to camp in time and SO lit the fire. Strangely enough it did not seem to be so cold anymore. Our fire was well on the go when SO heard a noise. He shone the spot light on the waterhole and oh my goodness me ……there were 4 spotted hyenas at the waterhole. They started walking towards our unit but then moved off in the direction of the tourist assistant’s unit. We flew out to the walkway at the back and with the help of SO and the spotlight I managed to video them.
http://video.tinypic.com/player.php?v=6gx9nyu
Well I was speechless...this was awesome. It was a first for us.In the past we had seen a brown hyena on a night drive from Nossob and we had seen a dead spotted hyena at Rooiputs. After the 2 hyenas disappeared from view we went back to our unit and after a few minutes we realised that the other 2 were still quite close to our unit but I had run out of tape....and there was no ways I was going down to Monty to fetch another. We were very happy campers when we retired for the night….we may have not seen lions but we had seen another wildcat as well as the hyenas...was our luck changing….or was the Kgalagadi just being it's usual unpredictable self.