Botswana 1997 # 2
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This picture is of us having breakfast in Mabuasehube Game Resort after the first night. Note the open car door.
My friend is scanning the pan with the binoculars, to look for wildlife.
The idea was that we would sleep in tents. On arrival they told me they had camped before, and found lion's footprints all around their tent one morning.
That made me decide to sleep in the car... I'm not courageous.
In the car it was very hot, and I couldn't keep the window open, partly out of fear a lion would try to fish me out with his paw. And when I rolled the window down one centimetre / inch, within half a minute I had all kinds of bugs coming in, and plenty of them.
Then every time I was nearly asleep, the antenna went 'doing!'. It took me a while to figure out in the pitch dark that a bat apparently mistook the tip of the antenna for a savoury bit.
On arrival the previous day, before we went to sleep, we had some food. It went dark early, so they brought out a flood light, which was made to swerve over the surroundings. I thought that was so convenient!
I also kept closing the car door... and they kept opening it.
At some point they explained that the flood light was convenient, but really served to keep a close eye on wildlife in general, and lions in particular. And that the door of the car was to remain open all the time while we were out, because we would not have more than a split second to get in the car and close the door if a lion would show up.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Botswana
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hukuntsi
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalahari_Desert
My friend is scanning the pan with the binoculars, to look for wildlife.
The idea was that we would sleep in tents. On arrival they told me they had camped before, and found lion's footprints all around their tent one morning.
That made me decide to sleep in the car... I'm not courageous.
In the car it was very hot, and I couldn't keep the window open, partly out of fear a lion would try to fish me out with his paw. And when I rolled the window down one centimetre / inch, within half a minute I had all kinds of bugs coming in, and plenty of them.
Then every time I was nearly asleep, the antenna went 'doing!'. It took me a while to figure out in the pitch dark that a bat apparently mistook the tip of the antenna for a savoury bit.
On arrival the previous day, before we went to sleep, we had some food. It went dark early, so they brought out a flood light, which was made to swerve over the surroundings. I thought that was so convenient!
I also kept closing the car door... and they kept opening it.
At some point they explained that the flood light was convenient, but really served to keep a close eye on wildlife in general, and lions in particular. And that the door of the car was to remain open all the time while we were out, because we would not have more than a split second to get in the car and close the door if a lion would show up.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Botswana
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hukuntsi
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalahari_Desert
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