After Moremi, Dijara Community Camp was our next stop. There were no other campers, so we had the luxury of choosing our site. The one on the banks of the river with trees spaced perfectly for a hammock looked just right. With binoculars and book in hand, I set off for a relaxing afternoon of reading and birdwatching, suspended between two trees at the edge of the river.
As I lay gazing lazily into the middle distance, I noticed little archipelagos of grass clumps drifting downstream. Little did I realise that these were harbingers of an imminent visitor…I glanced up from my book and saw two little round ears in the river a few metres away. I knew that they belied the enormous hulk that loomed beneath the surface, and I was out of that hammock in one movement. Not a chance was I getting caught between those chompers.
A short while later, as I gathered my wits in the relative safety of our caravan, Mr Grey lumbered across for a howdy-do. He broke a few branches around our site and then had a dust bath in the adjoining campsite. Goeie genugtig! We sure were communing with nature.
Setting: 10/10- especially as we were the only campers there
Amenities: basic- cold bucket showers, but they did the job well enough.
Southern Safari 2 
Amazing, so enjoying this. Keep on having fun and entertaining us. Those blue blue skies are such a contrast to what we are seeing now.
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