THURSDAY 17TH - MOREMI GAME RESERVE

They woke us at 5:30 and, after a quick breakfast, off we went for more exploration. Our quest for this morning was wild dogs, which our guide Clinton seemed to have a particular fascination with. 

Once again, we saw lots of other animals including zebra which we didn't see here yesterday but a lot of time was spent observing the wild dogs den where we caught glimpses of about half a dozen pups but the adult dogs didn't return to the den as expected.

So we had to go searching for them and, with the assistance of other guiding companies who all talk to each other in the quest to find animals, we found them a long way from the den and exhibiting no apparent concern for the pups back at the den who looked very vulnerable to any hungry lions or leopards which happened to wander by.

This afternoon we went hunting for the wild dogs which were expected to be on a hunt of their own and,sure enough, they were. We saw lots of dogs and lots of impala and even some dogs chasing impala but, as far as we could ascertain, no dogs caught up with any impala.

Apart from the particular animals being sought, we were continually surprised by what we ran into. The pictures below tell the story.