So, great excitement to have a honey badger and a spotted genet visit us at our braai last night. Nige cooked up some lovely pork fillet, and we had some left over for sandwiches the next day. Into the fridge it went, along with some baby potatoes, onions and tomatoes. Well, in the dead of night, said honey badger made a raid on the fridge, which stands outside on the stoep (not behind bars, and without a padlock, which left us with a false sense of security). He very cleverly ignored potatoes, onions and tomatoes, and went straight for the tinfoil-wrapped pork. Plus – the cheeky devil – he absconded with our boerewors for the next night’s braai!
After a big first day, we expected things to slow down somewhat on the game-viewing side of things. Not so! We started the day with a sighting of a pride of around 16 lions. They were quite a distance away, but we saw them clearly nonetheless. That’s the Big 5 ticked off.
We also spotted a saddle-billed stork, hyena, wild dog, a lovely little black-backed jackal, buffalo and roan antelope, amongst other things – like several hundred elephants! We didn’t spot the honey badger again, who seemed to have the decency to leave our dinner alone tonight. Although we did have to defend our lunch against approaches from a pair of bulbuls, a squirrel and a determined hornbill. Life in Africa is tough.
