Our evening drive started a bit late as my guest arrived
late. We headed out for a short drive, Bernhard and his group saw Buhuti on a big
kudu bull carcass, when we got there, Buhuti had already left. 
This morning
however was a good one for photography! Bernhard found a clan of hyenas on
Annette’s open area feeding on the cheetahs’ old Nyala calf carcass. We spent
quite some time with the scavengers; the matriarch was protecting her cub
(sub-adult) from the rest of the clan as he was feeding off the carcass. She
kept the rest well away from the cub as she chased them away if they came too
close.
After the hyena clan we headed west to spend some time with the Styx
pride, the whole pride was resting on knob thorn pan open area, the cub however
hid in the bushes. As we sat watching the pride interact with each other and
relaxing, the adult female spotted a warthog.
The sub-adult male, when realised
the warthog, pressed himself against the female to minimize their visual shape.
Fortunately for the warthog he could smell them and ran away! One female had a
very bad injury on her chest, reason un-known, hope she recovers. On Gowrie
main a big bull elephant was showing his talent as he stretched his trunk to
reach the low hanging branches of a tall green thorn. Amazing day yet again!
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