Exciting Elusive Elephants

Sunday July 3^rd

Today was our first full day off so we took a trip to Queen Elizabeth National Park. We had a superb day despite the 5.45am start.

These hippos were only about 10 yards from the shore-you can just see the bow of a fishing boat in the foreground

There was much to see but the one of the two major highlights of the day was watching a huge group of 42 elephants across the Kazinga Channel from Mweya lodge. We weren’t able to take the boat trip we intended until 16.15 as the 14.00 boat wasn’t going to go so we were able to watch the herd move around over a 3 hour period which was truly amazing. The boat trip that followed was equally stunning. We took a small boat carrying 8 passengers including ourselves which was able to get in extremely close to the bank of the channel with some spectacular views of the birds and animals. Unfortunately the herd of elephants had moved on by that stage but there were still a couple who remained behind

All in all it was an amazing day and one we were very grateful to have experienced but it is such a contrast to the environment we are currently living and working in.  

This elephant looked as if he had had a problem with toothache!