Thursday August 7th

Just got in after a l-o-n-g day.

This morning we were searching for Scarlett – the female cheetah. The telemetry was a bit vague and we were about to go to a high point to try and fix her when suddenly

Scarlett! 

2 cheetah in three days isn't bad going :-)


The morning drive ended early as we had to get back to focus on the business of the day: planning our film.


More importantly, a shower. We currently have only one working shower between us and, as chief cook, I've always been at the cold end of the queue (somone else is cooking tonight – YAY!). I am happy to report that I am now clean and that Lush shampoo bars are a thing of beauty. I will not go into details about the blocked shower tray outlet and the small flood caused by the tray overflowing … but everything dried out nicely when hung over a tree branch.

Our warthog family

There must be something dead, somewhere

As the film is going to focus on the dogs, the rest of the day was spent with them. They were right at the far end of the reserve and we spent a scary hour and a bit getting from them back to the house in the pitch black.

Calvin - or Chance.