9th August, Ondangwa
Hi,
Good to get the blog up to date and some photos on it. It’s been a bit of R&R today; driving through Etosha NP for 3 days was quite tiring. Not because we were dodging elephants although a greater kudu almost ran into us at one point, but the roads in the park are all made of a chalky white gravel, I don’t wear sun glasses and after a while the glare was causing a form of snow blindness.
Anyhow, the last two days were full of great sights from the dimunitive form of the Damara dik dik weighing in at 5 kilos to the elephants and giraffes. At one waterhole we counted 10 giraffes, at another, 8. Majestic animals. Yesterday as we were heading out of the park we noticed three animals loping along with a strange gait on the edge of the plain, looking through the binoculars we saw they were spotted hyenas that ended up crossing the road just in front of us. They cover amazing ground with their strange action. A much maligned animal they have some very strange traits none more than their reproductive arrangement. The female has a phallus which the male impregnates her through. Her vagina is closed from the exterior. The male is very subservient to the female and has to approach her in a groveling fashion to win her favour. Some things don’t change in the different species do they .
Tomorrow we head up to Ruacana, on the Angolan border. From there the going gets rough, the place less populated. It will be interesting.
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