On another day at Lagoon Camp, we encountered four female lions. All were in the nursing stage. We followed them for some distance until they encountered a fairly wide stream/river. It was obvious they were going to cross; it was clear that their cubs were somewhere over there! Watching their hesitation to get wet was fascinating – they were watchful for crocs! Eventually one went and sat on the other side. It we 30-40 minutes before the other three took the plunge.

On our first safari drive of June’s visit to Botswana, we experienced several hours of a pride of lions typical morning. This pride consisted of two adult females and several cubs. The male did not show up for some time. Here are a few shots of the walk through the terrain.

At a point they reached a hillock, and decided to rest, wait and observe.

And then they sighted a large male kudu in the distance. The kudu saw or sensed the lions, turner at a right angle and ambled away.

The female lions then split. One went to the right while the other, poised, waited on the hillock. Then the females began to rum. Next:

We watched for a while, it got a little gruesome so we left. The next day we returned to find full belly’s, cubs playing and the old male, who waited too long to get a meal!

Every year when we go on safari in Botswana, we wrap up the trip with 3-4 nights in the Chobe area at Muchenje Lodge. Our normal routine there involves several hours each day on a comfortable boat cruising on the Chobe River. The abundance of wildlife is terrific, and the boat enables us to get very close to all of it including elephants, cape buffalo, hippos, lizards, crocs and so on. My personal favorites are the birds. Here are some of those wonderful creatures.