Etosha Day 3. Just hanging around (in spotted pajamas!)

Our 3rd day in Etosha we drive east to visit the the Okaukuejo rest camp and the waterholes around it.

Another early breakfast at Halali camping.

Things started off quietly at Rietfontein, but then a heard of beautiful Kudu show up for an early morning drink.

Zebra and giraffe at Ondongap, on the edge of the pan.

And a few ostrich passing by on the edge of the pan.

Kudu at Aus.

 

While enjoying the scenery and a cup of coffee at Aus, we got a tip from a passerby that a leopard is hiding in the trees about 200 meters up the road.

And there it was!!  Literally hanging around!  In beautiful spotted pajamas!!

For about an hour we got to enjoy this from about 20 meters away until the leopard had enough of being stared at and ran off into the veld.  (And yes, I more than once wondered how many seconds it would need to jump from the tree right onto my lap through the open window!!)

Hereafter a great deal of the afternoon was again spent hanging onto a  broken roof rack bracket while driving back to Okaukuejo to have the soldering job redone!

Secretary bird

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