More sightings in Kafue NP, Zambia

This morning's game drive was rather quiet - we only saw things we had seen before: our pride of lions, kudu, puku, impala, and lots of birds. We did add a new beautiful bird the woodland kingfisher. About 10:30 we dashed back to camp as the tsetse flies came out.

In the afternoon, Chamu gave us a quiz. Some of the more interesting questions were social in nature. "Why its difficult to move people to create a national park?" They have to leave their buried ancestors. "What do you say to encourage these young democracies, how do you stop the poaching of elephants and rhinos?"

After our quiz, we took a cruise and had a unique sighting (none of the guides had ever seen), a kudu swimming across the river. Probably chased by a predator, it was at great risk of being found by the crocodiles. For the rest of the cruise we saw birds - white-fronted bee-eater, senegal coucal, giant kingfisher, and green backed heron (which attracts fish by dropping fish into the water).

Giant Kingfisher, Woodland Kingfisher, Green-backed Heron, Senegal Coucal

We then drove back finding 3 cheetahs on our way. We stopped for sunset and had a campfire waiting for us with a portable bar and hor-d'oeurves. After dark, we spotted white tailed mongoose, jennets (another mongoose that looks like a cat) and some bush rabbits, all nocturnal animals.

The 3 wives (Ruth, Cindy, Mary) and John at sunset