Last year, we celebrated our anniversary and our big birthdays with a bunch of friends at Stucktaymore - a very comfortable shooting lodge on the banks of Loch Tay.
This year we're in the Serengeti in a tented safari camp close to the Mara River. WiFi is limited so photos will have to wait till we're back in the city.
However it was a very different birthday - we started with 5.30am call for breakfast and on the truck with Edgar - our guide - just as it got light. Before we stopped for coffee we had seen elephants, lions a serval cat & her teenage kitten, giraffe, zebra, buffalo, hippos, warthog. Hyena, jackal, vultures on a fresh carcass, an eagle or two and of course thousands of Wildebeest. As we drove along the river we saw a group of 800-1000 Wildebeest on the other side and followed them as they looked for a place to cross. After a couple of hours they found a crossing place that suited them - despite a large Nile croc - which took one of the calves and brought the crossing to a halt with only 100 or so having made it.
As they milled around trying to build up courage to start again, we spotted a large male leopard laying in the shade. As the Wildebeest moved back from the river bank, he leapt on one, managed to bring it down and dragged it into the bush.
Croc-1, leopard - 1, Wildebeest - 0.
Quite an exciting day in all!
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