Unwinding with new friends at end of week one

I spent the day visiting with new friends and fellow WUSC volunteers back at Mokolodi Nature Reserve. Anouk and her family live right next to the reserve. What a wonderful childhood Anouk and her husband are providing for their kids -- you couldn't ask for a more beautiful backyard ! Here they are, on the lookout for hippos.

Lunch time for baby warthogs.

An implausibility of wildebeest. (Apparently, that is the collective noun for wildebeest.)

You can never have too many giraffe pictures.

Cooling of in the pool after a morning game drive. Does it get any better than this ?

Safari, Sagoodi !

Afternoon game drive at Mokolodi Nature Reserve, 10 minutes from town.

That's Gaborone Dam in the distance.

Mmapaseka, taking a break, while our guide scans the horizon for giraffes.

There's one !

We also saw impalas, zebras, warthogs, kudus, wildebeest, ostriches, and a cheetah. I will go back some weekend morning to see the rhinos when they are active.