We started with a lovely pride of lions in the pre-dawn light. One huge male, three females and two month-old cubs were finishing a kill from last night. Cubs eating and playing are cute any time. The adults were beautifully fit and glowed in the early light.

Next we went to Cheetah Valley. Since they didn’t catch anything last night we thought we could see more chasing. We found a kill, but no cheetahs. It would have been difficult to top yesterday evening’s action, anyway. Instead we worked on topi, giraffe, wildebeest, and even a hyena, all in spectacular light in the golden grass. As we were about to leave we found the three cheetahs walking to a tree to mark and spend the hot hours under. We all pulled up in time to shoot the marking.

The afternoon game drive was the great Rhino Hunt of 2013. We drove way east through some really rocky areas. We found the rhino after getting lost a couple times and he was in thickets so dark it was tough to even see him. Back at the camp we had a Swahili dinner, packed up our stuff and got ready for tomorrow’s drive and return to Seronera.

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