D58…..Razzle Dazzle.

Adjacent to the Makgadigadi lies the Makgadigadi National Park. It is a large, dry, arid place with fried grass, interspersed with the odd shrub and tree. Despite this, it is home to the second largest concentration of zebra in the world. 40,000.

We have spent the day in the park. It is a long drive but the obvious destination is the river that flows through. It is the lifeblood of the park during the dry season, when temperatures sit in the 40’s. So much so that animal viewing is guaranteed and plentiful. All the wildlife need to make the trek down to the river system every day or so. So we saw wildebeest, steenbok, springbok and kudu in numbers.

But, we were not prepared for the sheer numbers of zebra that greeted us. It was a sea of stripes in all directions. There were literally thousands. There was a ‘dazzle’ of zebra at every turn! I doubt I have ever seen more than 20 or 30 in one place before. But we must have seen 3000 today.

We even saw a ‘journey’ of giraffes. They were walking. Had they been motionless it would have been a ‘tower’!

Lessons continue tomorrow. What do they call a group of owls? Answer Monday. J