Our last morning at Zulu Nyala the group decided to take an early morning drive. We were hoping to get another glimpse of the elephants, baby rhino, and well, one of each, but it just wasn't in the cards. I did get a couple of nice shots of the sun rise, and we found 2 additional cheetahs that we hadn't see before.
The last glimpse of the moon.
Mama and baby.
Sunrise over one of the "hotel" facilities on the preserve, I'm very sure this is one of the facilities that is used to house hunters when they are on the preserve. (The hunting operation is done under a different name.)
Geese just taking flight.
Wildebeest! No, he wasn't fixin' to charge us.
"What are you lookin' at?!?!??!"
We saw a lot of birds this morning, but it was difficult to get good pictures of them.
Two brother cheetahs.
Marking his territory.
Even as painted and deliberately marked as they look, it is amazing how they just blend into their surroundings.
It was time for breakfast this morning.
This guy has an injured foot or leg. When the guides first noticed there was a problem, they had a vet come out to the preserve but he didn't feel anything needed done other than to watch him and just see how Mother Nature handled the situation. His brother now hunts for him, keeping him relatively healthy. There are no lions on Zulu Nyala so he doesn't have any predators to worry about (other than poachers) and appears to be doing just fine.
With the vegetation really starting to show some green, I think it gives more depth to the vastness of the country.
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