We woke up early this morning because our game drive
started at 6:30 this morning.
Unfortunately, after all of the excitement of last evening, it was hard
to compare!! We did see some cool
things, however! We saw lines and lines
of elephants and zebras walking towards the marshy area for the day, which was
neat to see. 
As well we saw hyenas three different times. The last time we saw them there was a group
of three and they were running alongside the road checking out the other
animals. A couple of times the group of
hyenas had a stand-off with a wildebeest, which was really interesting to
witness.
Breakfast and then hours by the pool was the
remainder of the day, more-or-less! We
played a couple of games of Yatzee and Scrabble before our briefing and
afternoon game drives.
The afternoon drive turned out to be really quite
successful! We saw a lot more
lionesses! We saw four of them off in
the distance to start. We saw at least
six ostriches and more secretary birds as well.
We saw a lot of crowned cranes – they are the national bird of Uganda. They tend to be seen in pairs for the most
part, but we saw some in larger groups too, which was cool because they are so
colourful!
More driving led us to a sole lioness not very far
away from us. She had a tracking collar
on and was walking around. She ended up
sitting directly in front of the van on the other side of the valley from us –
which was sad ‘cause she could have come up towards us! It was still a good view, though.
We then saw a lot of elephants in the swamp and then
drove up right beside a tiny, tiny baby elephant and its mom. S.K. guessed the baby was no more than 2 days
old! It was priceless to see it
attempting to stand up and walk. It
really didn’t know what to do with its legs at all and attempted to crawl using
its trunk a few times. It was probably
the most amazing part of the entire trip, to be honest! They were right beside the road and we had a
perfect view of the little elephant. It
was amazing to see such a young elephant!
On our way back towards the camp we saw another heard
of lions! There were three females and a
baby cub! It was getting dark, but they
crossed the road right in front of us and I did manage to get a good picture of
the cub! It was great to see so many
lions today – especially being able to see a little one! Yeah!
Dinner was good – pizza again. Early to bed tonight because it is our last
night in a real bed as tomorrow night will be in the plane!
So sad that our trip is
basically over L! It’s been totally awesome!
Later
-Allison
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