The day before we met "The San."

Tomorrow we shall meet the San

“You were really able to arrange for a meeting with a family of 'Bushmen'?”.

Kel's question conveyed some surprise.

“Yep!” Ant said, with some pride in his voice. “Through a local guide, Amy, who lives in the Community. She also teaches some of their children, I was able to meet some 'Bushmen' or 'San' as they call themselves, about one year ago. I called Amy from Harare before we left. She promised to try.”

“Where will we meet them?” Kel was curious.

“Somewhere near 'Piper Pan'  tomorrow in the early afternoon”

“That'll be quite a ride”

“But that's the place, if we want to meet them, and only in company of Amy.”

“We'll meet her near the Piper Pan and she'll take us to meet the San.”

“Can't wait” said John.

Slowly we drove to our campsite at “Sunday Pan.”

There were still some good daylight hours left in this glorious day, which allowed us to take a little detour, which, from a photographic point of view proved most rewarding.

“You know, we have been after the big guys, the Elephants and the Lions but the little guys are also most interesting.” John observed.

Pointing from our slow moving vehicle to his 2 O'clock right and only about 10 meters from the cruiser we saw a family of ground squirrels. The first of this group, once he saw us, let out a shrill whistle and they all disappeared down their escape routes.

Maybe this is my imagination, but whenever we spotted a group of them, there was always one who seemed to be the “spotter,” scanning the sky and the surroundings.

"Look at this little guy, "Ant said, 

"he picks only the red little flowers, the rest he doesn't touch."

"There must be lots too eat around here", John remarked, 

"for him to be so choosy."

"I seem to recognize this area. 

We must be coming pretty close to the Sunday Pan"

"There is a Hyena, casually moving along" John continued.

"True and well spotted" Ant complimented John's eagle eye.

"We're downright lucky" Ant said. 

 "Look at these two Silver backed Jackals"

Ant brought our Cruiser to a stop. "What luck," he said. 

"We are 5 minutes from our camp site and look over there. 

A whole delegation of Oryxes."

To see a family of Zebra is always a great pleasure