Etosha Trip Report - Part Two - Okaukuejo

We left Halali at sunrise and headed West towards Okaukuejo and the first thing we see is...

... more roadkill!!

The honey badger was still alive but we think its back was broken from the impact of the vehicle...

Plus there was its dead baby that had been knocked flying into the grass...

A honey badger is a rare sighting but the speedsters don't care - they will drive over anything in their path!

We arrived at Okaukuejo camp just after lunch and went to our stone chalet...

Okaukuejo is lion country and we had the lions roaring every night and two nights we saw them drinking at the Okaukuejo camp waterhole...

And then we saw more lions nearly every day at the waterholes around Okaukuejo camp...

Here is a short video of the above mating lions shot on a Sony camcorder...

In addition to lions we had some good sightings of other animals...

And we managed to get some nice sunrise...

and sunset shots...

plus some reflections and silhouettes taken from inside the camp...

We noticed rhino poaching posters up in all the camps

and found out that one rhino was poached in Namibia during 2011 and Etosha is bracing itself for the potential onslaught.

Etosha Trip Report Summary

We have been to Etosha on many self-drive safaris but this Etosha trip was our most enjoyable.

We think it was a combination of seeing water in the pan with so many waterbirds in winter, plus the regular leopard and lion sightings and the great sunrise and sunsets that we photographed.

We ended up with good wildlife, landscape and bird photographs so we are already planning our 2012 trip!

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