Nap time

Out early for a drive around the park. Loads of giraffes, impala crèches and nyala. The nyala are the most numerous game here, about 5,000 of them compared to 1,000 impala. The area is pretty flat and there are loads of bushes though so animal spotting is seriously hard work. There are 420 different species of birds so it's a twitcher's paradise but they seem to be mostly wee, fast guys! The hides at this pan are really impressive and we stayed a while watching the hippos, and trying to identify the wading birds on the far side of the pan. Yellow-billed stork, black egret, pelican, woolly-necked stork, others unknown. The wader population is down by one though - a croc grabbed something large and pink while I was watching. One almighty splash, the croc up in the air with the bird in its jaws, all calm again, the rest of the birds unfazed.
Back to the camp for breakfast and it started to get really hot again when our ACNE tour guide headed off to reception and got us moved to a much better site. She's a star. Better tents, with working zips!, better kitchen, alround cooler location and a whole posse of bush babies, though we only found that out later. Seems there were a couple of lions wandering through the camp yesterday. They were probably looking for dodgy tent zips.