Dispatch #8. Sleeping with lions

Sleeping with the lions. Through the night soft roaring of lions prowling around seeking water from boiler behind my tent. Low growls. morning 150 legs. Coffee with a view. Centipede black 150 legs. Wake up call in the dark "Jambo, Jambo"

8am lion family. Up close and personal. He spraying his turf. She saying NO.

Buffalo crossing hippo pool. Tons of chocolate covered cherries. Lolly gagging in the pool after a night eating grass.

10,000 zebra. Sea of stripes Noon watering hole. Forever black and white.

Dispatch #6 deep in The Serengeti

Pink dawn quick coffee. Into the bush Game drive at 5 am over snake of fire ants. Like thick black python.

Tent sleeping to plop. Footsteps. Prowl. Roars. Maasai escorts with torches ,water.
White grasses. Black acacia umbrella trees

Mission to find big cats. Trains of. Zebra against golden grass right out of Ralph Lauren. Miles and miles of zebra and wildebeest. Baboons on morning stroll. Lion and lioness in the grass at last.

Hyena too close. Zebra roadblock and they stop for a kiss.