Frogs on my feet and spiders on my face
It is getting HOT in Zim now. At 8.30am today the temperature was already 30C! We’ve not had proper rains for a few weeks now but they should arrive within the next week or so, which will hopefully clear the air and refresh the atmosphere. I went on my first “Night Encounter” at the weekend, which is basically taking the older lions out for a walk at night time to allow them to hunt some of the game in the park. However, as they are too big for us to walk on foot, they are trained to follow vehicles, which they seem to do surprisingly well. We drove around the park for over 2 hours but the only animals they tried to hunt were one steenbok and a zebra. The steenbok chase was actually pretty good because the lions ran FULL PELT towards this steenbok (I have never seen them run so fast in my life!) and they very nearly caught the steenbok. It even screamed out in distress (poor thing – I would do too if 4 subadult lions were running for their live...