Morning Drive in Hwange

The next morning we decided to go out on a drive with Dume, he is the BEST guide ever! Every time he takes us out he just wants us to see so much, so he would track lion tracks and try to find them for us, and would just love whenever we would experience something great....which you may see at the end of this post.

Crowned Crane. I liked it just for the crowned part on his head.

The ONLY good picture I got of a Sable on this trip. They are very shy.

Marshall eagle. They are the ones who have a 5-6 foot wingspan.

Baby Zebra!! Still all fuzzy.

Giraffe sticking his tongue out at us...yep a giraffe's tongue is blackish-pinkish.

First time we got to see some Roan. Pretty cool antelope.

I thought the way their face is formed is pretty cool.

Okay so we are on the road back to the Lodge, when all of the sudden I'm looking out my side of the jeep and I see all of these elephants hanging out by the trees. I yell for Dume to stop and he stops, but then the elephants start running!!!! This is the picture I got of them doing that.

So do you know what Dume did??? He backed up the whole way so we were right in the way of the elephants!!! See...such a great guide! Anywho, half of the elephants had run across and the rest were waiting for us to get out of the way. So we backed up a little more, and then the rest ran!

Do you see all the little babies in there?? There was one baby that was a newborn, because it was only 3 feet high! So tiny and cute! Most likely they were running because the babies were around them.

One more thing about this elephant herd is that it's the Presidential herd, meaning the President says that this herd has to be protected at all cost.

Here is Ally posing with the elephants. Oh and you see how happy Dume is??

Got back to the Lodge and Tyler played with Ally and Spencer.