February 1

So, I've finally caught up on my blog posts! If you'll notice below, all of January seems to have appeared overnight. That's because this lodge, the Ndutu Lodge in Tanzania, is the first place we've had internet access since the Mount Kenya Safari Lodge. Hope you enjoy reading, as I think I've written a novel down below!!!

Today we went for an early morning game drive. Somewhere on these plains are over 1 million wildebeest. Somewhere. We haven't found them yet - it's amazing how huge this place is! It was too cloudy to see the sunrise, but that didn't stop us from seeing some really great game and taking great photos. We saw a family of lion (3 females, 4 cubs) walking away from a kill. We photographed them for a while, then went to see their kill.

Their kill was a wildebeest and they certainly didn't leave very much of it for the scavengers!! I got some great pictures of a jackal and 4 types of vulture.

I think I'm going to go for a nap now, we have the afternoon to ourselves until 4pm when we head out again for another drive.

The FLIES here are driving everyone insane. My tsetse fly bite on my shoulder is still really annoying me, it's very itchy and red. But I only feel my normal travel exhaustion, not a sleeping sickness exhaustion, so I'm sure I'm ok :)

I'll write more tomorrow. I'm not sure if our last lodge will have internet access, so tomorrow might be the last posting before we head HOME!