Nambiti Again?

 

We saw these teenagers in October and they have grown!

So our Elders on P Day wanted to go to Nambiti and we had to go and help with transport.  Durbin said ok as long as they were not over their "kms".    One of the Elders arranged everything and we had to go at 4pm which we thought would be hot.  It was cloudy and cool all day and the most perfect weather.  I even needed my jacket before dark.  We left at 3 and got home at 8:30.  I had been cooking a pot of ham and beans all day and it was the perfect dinner for all.  (I do feel that I cook a lot!)

  A couple eventful moments on the drive were seeing water buffalo in a herd.  We had not seen any buffalo on our previous drive.  They don't like people and can be very dangerous.    We saw them at the beginning of the drive and when we were leaving in the dark the whole herd shows up along the road.  Our driver has a spotlight with a red filter.  Our memory will forever be waterbuffalo heads 2 feet from us with red eyes.  Not one off us could take a picture and chance a flash, but they checked us out as much as we checked them out.

  The reason we were so late was because of the lions.  We were leaving the park when we got notice on radio of the lions in a certain area.  We approached slowly to an area where people were watching with binocs and so we did too. All of sudden from behind the truck walked the 2 teenage male lions
who were also watching us and watching their parents frolic. Both laid down as if going to sleep on the road, blocking it.    We snapped lots of pics and then out walked a female and another big male.  They stayed a minute and then walked on.   Many minutes went by and one of the teens gets up and walks to our truck and lays down right under our bumper.  We weren't going anywhere.  When eventially the bumper guy walks back to the road our driver slowly backs up and carefully heads through the bush and over the rocks to go home.

They look cold because Nambeti was cold.  It had rained most of the weekend and it was good for soup that night

.  We were there at least an extra 45 minutes at the standoff.  It was so dark when we got home.  Stories to tell!