Gaborone Game Reserve

A contribution from Mave: today very early in the morning the family set out to the Gaborone Game Reserve. We had been once before a couple of years ago but unfortunately did not see that many animals. When we arrived we came across some impala. They were the usual animals that you see around Southern Africa so we didn’t get that excited. After a drive further into the game park we saw some ostriches in the middle of the road just hanging out. Then very close to the ostriches was a family of warthogs. However the mother was on one side and at first we didn’t notice that it was a family until we thought that the mother was distracting us from something and looked across to find the father and babies. Unfortunately shortly after we spotted them they ran away. The next animal that we saw were the monkeys which we encountered several times during the trip. When we saw the monkeys we also saw all of the animals that are listed above and it was a very pleasant scene until the horrible wild dogs came and chased them away. We were terribly outraged at that!!!!! Later that day we went to the Botswanacraft so my mom could get some more wall hangings. Kuno also got a sling shot so he practiced with that for most of the day.

For the record: we saw at the Gaborone Game Reserve (in no particular order): ostriches, warthogs, springbok, an unidentified African eagle, pheasants and guinea fowl, vervet monkeys, impala, some kind of geese, some kind of white heron or cranes, meerkat, dassies, zebra and kudu. It was really a remarkable game drive. We were there when the place opened at 6:30 am and it had rained heavily the night before which may have contributed to all of the sitings. It was a lot of fun! The Gaborone Game Reserve is a small but delightful reserve more or less right in town. There are actually lots of animals to see, especially if one gets there early in the morning.