Central Serengeti from Ronjo Camp
June 6, 2018
06.06.2018 - 06.06.2018
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When we got up it was cold and our lights were still not on so it was hard to see. There were "windows" in the tent. If you unzipped and unvelcroed the canvas flaps over the windows, you could look out through the screens that covered the openings.
View from the toilet through the screen
Bar tent from our tent
At breakfast we got eggs -my granddaughter got hers with a hard yolk this time. And toast and there was watermelon and pineapple and pancakes on the buffet. I think there was also cold cereal.
Breakfast
Granddaughter at breakfast buffet
Wheelchair
Path from bar to restaurant
Lion paw prints
taking a photo of the lion paw print
Giraffe's near the camp
Giraffe face
Ox peckers on a giraffe
hawk
So today we saw three different leopards which completes the 'big five' (elephant, rhino, lion, leopard and buffalo).
First leopard
Leopard
Leopard
I spotted a serval cat,
Serval cat
Serval cat
Serval cat
Serval cat
Serval cat
Serval cat
Serval cat
and we saw baboons, wart hog, guinea fowl,
Baboons
Baboons
Wart hog
crested guinea
Milkweed
Red Lechwe Antelope
Red Lechwe Antelope
Topi
Topi
Lions in a tree
Lions in a tree
At one point we had smoke in the van and Jeremiah said it was a short in the radio, so we stopped and he took the radio out of the dashboard.
The vehicle we are in is a Land Cruiser and is at least 15 years old. Jeremiah says the new ones are flimsy and tend to drop parts on the washboard roads.
We stopped at the visitor's center for lunch
Visitors center
Rice dish with raisins
Barbet
Close-up of the candelabra tree
and saw an animal that looked like a big guinea pig - probably a hyrax.
Maybe a bush hyrax
Hyrax
After lunch we looked at the exhibit of bones
Exhibit at the visitor's center
Buffalo skulls
Bones
Bones
Skull
and saw a movie on Gnu migration (Gnu is another name for wildebeest). Then we came back to camp and I had a nap.
Granddaughter taking a photo of her own foot
I think Jeremiah did too as he was asleep during the bones explanation. He was awake until late chasing the lions out of camp
Maasai in camp
Maasai in Rondo Camp
I asked my granddaughter to take some photos of the thorns on the acacia trees
acacia thorns
acacia thorns
acacia thorns
munchies before dinner in front of the tent
We had a shower at 6, and then I took the computer in to charge and we talked to an Italian couple that was at Bashray Rift in that big group. Dinner was supposed to be onion soup but it didn't really look or taste like onion soup. There was chicken with some kind of orange sauce that my granddaughter said didn't agree with her.
Dinner
And what they said was marble cake, but I think was really a form of ginger bread.
marble cake?
They said they had fixed our lights, but they went out again after 5 minutes. I told my granddaughter to go out and find someone and tell them, but she refused to leave the tent. She said she could hear the lions roaring and that I was too deaf to hear them. She did eventually stand at the entrance and wave the flashlight until someone came.
sunset
They would do something to it and he would stand up and the lights would go out again. So eventually they gave us a different battery and they also left us a battery powered light.
Posted by greatgrandmaR 18:19 Archived in Tanzania Tagged tent tanzania lion giraffe serengeti wheelchair topi hyrax ronjo_camp paw_prints serval_cat
Great that you got to see leopards and complete the Big Five!
by ToonSarah