We were up with the birds this morning. With coffee packed in our rucksack, we made our way to a lookout point, on top of the highest dune, to watch the sun rise.
From there, we went on a long hike across the red sand dunes of the Kalahari. Walking in that soft sand was quite a workout!
We came across this clutch of ostrich eggs on our walk. Where, I wondered, were the would-be parents? They certainly wouldn’t take kindly to interlopers. I imagined having to beat a hasty retreat with an irate pair of breeding ostriches on our heels. We would have had more than egg on our faces, for sure! However, given the random configuration of the eggs, we reckoned that they had probably been abandoned. We left unscathed. 🙂
There is a 4×4 route on the property so three guesses what we’re doing when it cools down?
Southern Safari 2 
Sadly, the abandoned eggs probably means the parent ostriches had become prey to some or the other beast of prey.
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Barking at ostriches would have been a unique – possibly once in a lifetime experience. You decided against ostrich eggs for breakfast then….:/
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