Friday we spent most of the day chasing impalas around as well as warthogs, although the impala proved to be too much for my daughter, we did get another cull warthog. We had some serious excitement this afternoon as my daughter and I were walking through a meadow and I saw out of the corner of my eye a very large cape buffalo bull. He stood up to get a better look at us less than 30 yards away. We quickly changed direction to try and put some distance between us without wanting to provoke him to a charge. Thankfully he didn’t as he had several buddies with him. Needless to say it took a little while for the adrenaline to wear off from that close encounter. I will say that being that close to a mature cape buffalo bull with nowhere to escape was quite the experience. After that experience my daughter was quite nervous of getting too far away from the truck.
We also found a tortious this afternoon and spent a little time inspecting him up close, judging by his hissing he wasn’t too happy to have us close by. Definitely a fond memory from our time in the bush though.
