Our Final day in the Serengeti

 For our final day we had decided to revert to two game drives - couldn't face another straight 9 hours! 

It still meant that we were eating breakfast at 06.00 and off on our game drive by 06.30. Since we have seen Lion, Buffalo, Elephant and Leopard over the last two days, we suggested to Edgar that it might be fun to see a Rhino on our last day. There are very few in the Northern Serengeti - the exact number is a closely guarded secret - and unfortunately we had no luck in the early morning - there was a report of a rhino near one of the other camps but it would have meant an hour or more cross country with no guarantee that it would still be there. Instead, we settled for a very relaxed drive with some great bird spotting and quite a number of Elephant - including some very young calves. 

Marabou Stork, Vultures and Lioness

Goliath Heron

Black-Shouldered Kite

We also drove up into a rocky area on the eastern side of the plain where we also saw Klipspringer and Rock Hyrax (Dassie) . 

Crowned Lapwing on her nest

Kori Bustard

Klipspringer

We were back in time for lunch and then get on with packing for our departure on the next morning.

For our afternoon game drive Edgar suggested that we go looking for Rhino again up by the San river where we might even see Rhino on the Kenyan side. We came across two separate Leopards – one large male on river bank watching the reedbuck on the sandbank below and one adult female resting in a tree. As we followed a group of Vultures, we found a single Hyena who had apparently stolen the female leopard's dinner – a reedbuck – probably dropped from her perch in the tree. 

The Hyena was having trouble keeping it safe from the flock of vultures but eventually dropped down to river bed and stashed it in a water hole on the bank. 

As we continued, and prepared for rain, we stopped to photograph a rainbow and then Edgar spotted a Rhino – right at the end of the rainbow! We watched him feeding for a while in front of us and then as the rain came he moved further away. 

We waited for rain to pass and one of the other trucks to arrive to share the viewing – then home for dinner and finish our packing. What a way to finish..