Photo Journal from the Journey

Wild dog hunting

Baby Hyena

Two Kudu and a bird.

Kudu

A car for some perspective

Elephant corssing.

An elephant family out for a stroll in Hwange National Park

And then the retreat.

The lions were slowly moving out into the field.

And that's how close to the lions they were. On the right side of the screen, under the horizontal branch (just to the left of the bush) you can see one lion. On the left side of the picture, to the left of the bush there, you can see a few more lions. There's more of them further off screen. Keep in mind that wehn Andy asked us whether we wanted to go closer to the lions, he instruected us that when the lions charge, we are to stay put and not run. He did not use the phrase: if the lions charge. That being said, only Greg was the only brave enough to join him on this little escapade.

Andy and Greg sneaking up on the lions - nice and slowly - making sure that they wouldn't be eaten alive by them.

One of the lions from the pride of 18 that we saw in Hwange Park.

But my absolute favorite was lounging around on the upper deck and watching the stars then slowly fading off to sleep.

More sunset shots!

Or in the alternative you can sit in the sun and read... read... read and read some more.

Stuffing ones face is also equally acceptable when lazying around on a houseboat.

Intense concentration during the game!

The never ending games of monopoly - I think one of them went on for about 9 hours with all sides engrossed in the mergers, take-oves and imminent bankrupcies

Lindsay

Sunset time!

Yet another brave soul

Jumping off the houseboats into Crocodile infested Lake Kariba

Your average road-sign in africa.

And that's the Pizza delivery man putting away his bricks of cash.

That money that you see there was enough to pay for our Pizza bill after the Rhino Walk - probably about 59 million Zim $

riding shotgun in our safari vehicle.

And that's how close we were to all the Rhinos - probably less than 2 meters - so don't think those last few photos were the result of my long zoom lens.

More RHINOS!

RHINO!

Ian approaching the Rhinos

This is the most famous rock in all of Zimbabwe. The one on teh top right looks like a face and the one just below it is the lady's body with a baby strapped on her back in true African style.

Some of the rock formations in Zimbabwe - truly ancient - app. 3 billion years.

How's this for a law?

local village hut

Our Safari vehicles that we went on while searching for our Rhinos

Cave Paintings in Rhodes Metopas National Park

Have I posted a shot from Ngorongoro Crater? If I haven't this is a panorama of it.

One last lion cub shot.

Ain't he cute?

Take a look at those eyes and eye brows.

We were able to convince our guide to take us to 4 other little cubs. These were too young for viwing (only 5 weeks), but she agreed to let us see them as long as we didn't tell anyone else! Absolutely adorable.