Thursday: How many warthogs is too many?

The 12 hour game count started at 6am so that meant getting up at 4.30am!

Quick breakfast and then we were collected at 5.15am. Allowed to bring
book/ipod and lots of eats!

Our hide was called Hog Heaven! There were 2 of us and all in all 4
teams were sent out in to various hides for the 12 hours. We thought we'd make it
competitive and we devised a scoring sheet! Good marks for say a cheetah but oryx
are 10 a penny so only 1 for them.

Saw giraffe and zebra fairly early in the morning and then apart from
a few oryx it really was Hog Heaven. It IS possible to see too many
warthogs! Counted over a hundred all told.

Did see an African Hawk Eagle but it didn't stop long enough to photograph.

And right before we were picked up we got a group of 13 baboons!

Just got back to the office as the thunder and lightening started.It's
an impressive show here!

They know where the missing rhino is and the farmer (now his cattle
are getting rounded up and the fence is repaired) is happy to have her
there if that is what she wants.

There are 6 rhino here at the centre - they originally came from Etosha and are here as
part of a government custodian scheme. There are 3 males and 3 females.

It's still thundery here. I've seen the schedule for tomorrow and its very
likely i won't be able to send an email - I'll do tweets and texts as
I can. We have an afternoon game count from 4pm (which usually gets
back for supper ie 6-6.30pm) but then there is another evening one
starting at 7pm which I gather won't get back til 10pm!

Oh, and of course I have a recording of cheetahs purring!

Glad everyone is enjoying the updates. There's lots more to tell, but the dark
and internet speed is restricting me a bit!