Day 4 part 2- Africa is dangerous

So, we’ve seen the big five, seen babies, what more is there to see?  We headed out to evening safari thinking whatever we saw would most likely be a bit of a replay.  But the thing with nature, and wild animals, is that they are unpredictable.  We can across this 60 year old bull elephant. He wears a collar, so someone is tracking him, but our guide had only seen him twice before.  We took some photos of him - like this one - 

But then he decided to push over a large yummy looking tree - almost directly atop our open vehicle.  It was literally falling towards us as Dylan restarted the engine and moved us out of the way in the nick of time.  I made a video just after: 

https://youtu.be/h_sfbUX2SZM

As you know, we watched a lot of safari live before coming to Africa - but nothing really compares to being in proximity to such as a large wild animal....almost killing us in his vegetarian quest for dinner.    

Another lone giraffe popped by. 

And then we found some new rhinos.  

We get to pick and choose what we share here - so you’ve seen lots of closeups and nice photos. But you also see a lot of “bums” as our British friends say 

And you see quite a lot of animals “using the facilities”. 

We learned on our walk this morning that when you come across elephant dung you can tell if it was a male or female because females stop to do their number 2 , so you’ll find a lot in one spot.  Male elephants just keep walking, so it’s more of a trail of poo.   

 Back to our lion here.  He’s one of the Birmingham Boys we’ve been watching at home on Safari Live.  We stayed with him awhile, not only watching him pee, but also take a drink 

 Take a snooze - I mean being a lion is tiring business (we know this one had giraffe yesterday for dinner). 

And finally make sure we knew he was king, so he declared his dominance. He walked and vocalized and roared immediately beside our vehicle, right next to Kat who could have touched him. His roaring continued as he ambled away.    https://youtu.be/aXF2UHU-9qs. It was the second scare of our night.  It was chilling but incredibly cool to hear live in the wild,  and a good reminder that we are merely visitors on his turf.