liwonde

Great trip to Liwonde National Park with the group from WNC presbytery. Boat to the “camp” from HippoView Lodge. Of course we saw hippos on the way. Then it was a safari drive for hippos, elephants, waterbuck, impala, warthogs, sunset and then the night drive back to camp looking for nocturnal animals but we didn’t really see anything new. Other than the pink elephants…not that my pics do it justice. We had a red spotlight which is supposed to not spook the animals as much as a white one and be better for the animals’ eyes. That night surrounding our chalets were feeding elephants…and they are not quiet eaters. From one side of the chalet to the other I was watching them (no contacts and no lights, they were pretty blurry) and at one point I felt like one of them was staring right back at me…they were bending trees over almost back to the tree trunks and one of them walked right into the middle of what I would have considered a very dense stand of brush and trees but in the giant went. The next morning we went on a boat safari—more hippos and elephants, crocodile (1), and birds of many varieties. The rushing hippo and the swimming elephant were the obvious highlights of the morning.