The Adventures of Kerri & Matt

This was the first lake we visited in Africa. It is an alkaline lake.

You should know what these are by now. We’ve seen several different species all around the world thus far.

This is a heron. (The last ones were cormorants if you couldn’t remember).

As we left camp we did a morning game drive.

The usual suspects were out.

This is a medication dart.

The giraffes gave us a look as we drove past.

The whole family could work on this tree from lower branches to the upper.

Giraffes can’t eat the same tree for long as many release compounds that make it taste very bitter so then they wander to the next tree.

They can be used to determine the direction of the wind because they always walk into the wind.

That’s because the plant that is being eaten can signal downwind plants that they are being eaten and go bitter.

A couple warthogs were spotted walking around.

We also saw our first dik dik. This is the smallest of the gazelles.

We stopped at a viewpoint and we found some really cool looking lizards sunning themselves.

The drastic colour difference was quite interesting to see.

It did not help them blend in at all, which this one knows quite well as you can see the regrown tail.

Here is the female they are showing off for. She blends in with the rocks.

There were other lizards as well, but they were a bit harder to spot.

There were a few hyraxes around hanging out in the sun.

Even they get a bit chilled at night.

At night they will huddle together to keep warm.

After setting up the tents we walked out to a waterfall. There was a buffalo skull on the way.

The waterfall was pretty small.

But there were baboons everywhere.

They blend in with the rocks and scramble up and down.

They drink out of the pool at the bottom of the waterfall.