We saw a good variety of antelopes today. I also learned from Tips that antelopes have horns and deer have antlers. Who knew? I sure didn’t!

One thing I haven’t mentioned yet is that there is an electric fence around the lodge. This is to keep elephants out, because they can be very destructive. So, each time we enter/exit the lodge, ST jumps out and opens the electric gate.

Fairly soon after leaving the lodge, we saw a small herd of common eland. They are huge antelopes, the largest in the world. The common eland is over much of southern Africa, while the giant eland is only found in a couple of small areas further north and west. Interestingly, both the male and female have horns. There are a few oxpeckers on this one. The oxpeckers eat the ticks and other parasites off the animals. Although, they can also peck at the wounds of animals, which is not good.

This is a large male eland…

We found a few saddlebill storks wading in the water.

Around the next corner, we saw a small herd of zebras. One of them was nursing!

Here is the youngster after walking away from mom. This is the plains zebra, which is the most common zebra in Africa.

Under a tree right next to the zebra was a greater kudu. The males have these crazy corkscrew horns. They are the second largest antelope in the world.

Here is a side view of him as he walked away… Just so you can see the horns. Kind of massive horns to be carrying around!

Antelopes aren’t the only thing we saw on this drive. We also saw an ostrich. We hardly saw any over our entire 2 weeks, so it was great to see this beautiful male.

Looking over at us as we took photos of the ostrich was this lone giraffe. It was eating from the tree, but it’s curiosity got the better of it.

We happened to drive upon a lion and lioness resting in the shade. They both looked at us as we drove up.

The male was gorgeous…

The female looked at us a bit, but then turned and looked away in the distance.

Of course, we did see more antelopes. This herd of impala was a bit far away, but at least they didn’t run.

And, we saw more eland, including this female.

Driving around during this trip, we saw a lot of different weaver bird nests in the trees. I don’t recall which weaver this was for all these nests.

At the end of the drive, we were driving towards the sunset, so I stood up quickly and took a photo. It’s cool how the sun’s rays are captured on this photo.

We’ve been forgetting to take pictures of our meals. Oh well! We finally remembered to take one of dinner this evening.

Dessert was a fruit tart with pretty fresh flowers on top for decoration. The drooping whipped cream is becasue we started to eat it and then remembered to take the photo!

So ends another great day!