After the Cheetah sighting last evening our group was eager to spend today looking for a Rhino, but alas our guide was adamant that this was not the area for them, but that he would keep his eye open. Our first good sighting of the day was a male lion happily munching on a kill by himself. The lion was, however being watched by a good many hyenas, jackals and vultures. It was an interesting spectacle as the hyenas tried to intimidate the lion into leaving the kill. Our guide pointed out that the hyenas had blood on their snouts and front legs and probably they made the kill but that the lion took it away from them. We watched for maybe 30 minutes, and a third jackal approached and then the lion casually got up and walked away. That started a bit of mayhem as the hyenas, jackals and vultures all scrurried for bits of meat and the ones that missed out chased the ones that got the food.

Throughout the rest of the morning we had a number of interesting sightings, more lions, one pride with cubs, lots of wart hogs, and a saddle beaked stork with a yellow "saddle" in its other wise red and black beak. We eventually decided to follow a large herd of wildebeests that seemed like they might make a crossing of the Mara River. So along with a couple of dozen other safari vehicles we watched, waited and occasionally repositioned ourselves in anticipation. Eventually we were rewarded with a crossing of perhaps 3000 animals. Really quite exciting.

Lunch was a very civilized affair with tables, chairs, crockery plates and cups under the shade of a huge tree. The meal was accompanied by an interesting (and very articulate) briefing by our guide Patrick, on recent political developments in Kenya.

The afternoon found us a couple of good sightings of crocodiles (some very large indeed), some more lions, and a leopard.

We got back to camp just on dark, for a quick drink before a private dinner in our own tents.